English Teacher Quotes

“He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Which is great, since my English teacher hates late students like I hate riding my motorcycle in forty-degree weather while it rains.”
― Katie McGarry, Long Way Home

“Some people spend their whole life trying to be liked by others. Some people spend their whole life hoping to be liked for not trying to be liked by others.”
― Tim J. Brooks

“The existence of diverse opinions troubles me but it's the fact that everyone claims to be right that terrifies me”
― Tim J. Brooks

“If the driving force behind bettering human life is our insatiable desire to escape mortality what will we do when we succeed?”
― Tim J. Brooks

“You can achieve the highest level of academic, financial, physical, emotional and spiritual success but you won’t achieve true harmony until you cook your own meal.”
― Tim J. Brooks

“Alas! Alas if your unshakable view of the world relies on your circumstantial receiving of charity!”
― Tim J. Brooks

“Strive for political ideaology but do not hinder progress in the name of your ideology. That would simply be selfish.”
― Tim J. Brooks

“My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.”
― Kimberly Hill Campbell, Less Is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts, Grades 6-12

“my English teacher, Mrs. Harbor. She’s always going off on tangents. Sometimes I’ll zone out for a few minutes, and all of a sudden she’ll be talking about underwear in the eighteenth century or oppression in Africa or the way the sun looks rising over the Grand Canyon.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“the door is ajar, but it is still a door”
― Terry D. Pikop

“Who was that Prince?

Yesterday Anybody hasn't knew my name,
It’s really true (gorgeous Prince with brightly brown eyes. Watch Out!). He swishes U’ve seen Us makin' shields (She've got her eye on this Prince, couldn’t get him off her mind). Even though Everybody has me thinkin': Who was that Prince?
© Copyrights/ Who was that Prince, Author and Teacher: Jocylio Moraes (The Little Prince), March 8th/2020-Sunday, Chapter 68/366”
― Jocylio Moraes