Ann Curry Quotes

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

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

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

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

The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students.

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

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

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'

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.

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.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

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.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.