• "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 Tweet
• "I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher." - Dan Simmons Tweet
• "To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot." - Joseph Conrad Tweet
• "Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt." - Peter Agre Tweet
• "I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math." - Andrew Shue Tweet
• "Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma." - Sarah Sutton Tweet
• "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well." - Henri Frederic Amiel Tweet
• "Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet." - Huston Smith Tweet
• "My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do." - Dominic Monaghan Tweet
• "When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so." - Beverly Cleary Tweet