Top 1200 Geography Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

When I was seven, I sang 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' in assembly and the teachers were crying because it was so emotional!

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

It was a treat to work with Sarmad Sehbai. I wish actors had more teachers like him.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

I have been a cry baby since my childhood. Even teachers were scared of my crying.

Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It's a requirement.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

We cannot continue leaving teachers behind but expecting them to lead the way for our children.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

A person's school and teachers help lay a strong foundation, which leads to success.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.