English Teacher Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• The only reason I acted in school was because of the community. I was in the chorus of every play and was never the lead other than one time, but to me it was about the community. I was an English major and my whole goal was to be an English teacher and was lucky enough to get into the playwriting group. The whole experience I had at Brown was eye opening and the most mind-bending experience.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, Eye, School

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

  Eminem

  Song, Teacher, Sex

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

  John Grisham

  Teacher, Book, School

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• I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Teacher, Dad, Heart

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she'd still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Teacher, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

  Tawni O'Dell

  Teacher, Fun, Book

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• "Stupid English."
  "English isn't stupid," I say.
  "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
  "Why not?"
  "He says lunch isn't a subject."
  I glance at him. "It isn't."
  "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Stupid, Writing

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference.

  John Green

  Teacher, Soulmate, Real

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• It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester." - Your parents must be so proud you can read." - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Teacher, Book, Cat

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• My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Teacher, Butterfly, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.

  Simon Rich

  Teacher, Drama, Hippie

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Teacher, Dad

  "'Growing Up Laughing' With Marlo Thomas". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 29, 2010.

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• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, School, Existentialism

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• Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Teacher, Humorous, Moving

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• My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Jobs, Reading

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• When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

  Melvin Burgess

  Teacher, Jobs, Zoos

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• I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Inspirational, Teacher, Heart

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

  Melissa Bank

  Teacher, College, Thinking

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• The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Teacher, Brother

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• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  Jack Ma

  Teacher, School, Cities

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