• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself." - Confucius Tweet
• "Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher." - Joe Manchin Tweet
• "At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet." - Ama Ata Aidoo Tweet
• "I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher." - Dan Simmons Tweet
• "If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school." - Tim Gunn Tweet
• "I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays." - Nathan Fillion Tweet
• "Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives." - Andy Rooney Tweet
• "I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry." - Roald Hoffmann Tweet
• "The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher." - Anne Sullivan Macy Tweet
• "When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything." - Carla Bley Tweet