#teacher

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#being #children #deal #eleven #god

Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#experience #man #real #teacher #trust

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#am #being #control #day #full

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#daughter #education #her #i #inspired

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i am #leader #me #regard

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#children #commission #dangers #design #federal

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#approached #believe #could #country #i

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#could #days #father #i #never