I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way actually. That was a very subversive activity because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher people loved it.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Once I understood Bach's music I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Evil can be a teacher if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

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.'

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I got picked on a lot even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world that's not realistic.

As a teacher at Princeton I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel in one sense is a problem-solving exercise.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?