Ruth Bernhard Quotes

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

There's a lot of things I wouldn't have today if it wasn't for Curt Hennig. And he taught so many people.

Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are?

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

At our best, we are all teachers

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.

I touch the future. I teach.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.