English Teacher Quotes - Page 2

• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

  Alexander the Great

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Appreciation

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• My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Teacher

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• I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

  Maggie Smith

  Teacher, Thinking, Saws

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

  John Green

  Teacher, Jobs, Book

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• The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

  Dree Hemingway

  Teacher, Names, People

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• You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

  Tony Dungy

  Mother, Teacher, Book

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• A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

  Kate Clinton

  Teacher, Kids, Looks

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 12, 2013

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• Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

  Pat Boone

  Teacher, People, East

  Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

  Tony Dungy

  Mom, Teacher, Growing Up

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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

  Michael Schenker

  Homeless, Never Say Never, Aerosmith

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• I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

  Ving Rhames

  Acting, Whim, Performing Arts

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• I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

  John Mahoney

  Teacher, Brother, Fun

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• I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

  Rob Delaney

  Teacher, Crazy, Wife

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• Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

  Dick Cavett

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Stars

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.12, Macmillan

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• My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.

  Jonathan Ames

  Teacher, Good Life, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would prepare you for, and I just knew that segregation was wrong, and I knew that I should not be going along with it. That I should resist it.

  Diane Nash

  Teacher, Jobs, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

  John Brandon

  Teacher, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.140, Macmillan

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• I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Husband, School

  "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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