Although I am basically self taught I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour light and shadow.

Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn I must do it by listening.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

For some students school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

My mom's a concert pianist so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight I started writing my own songs and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically which is a big influence on me I think.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music and develop my ear and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life and I'm the one who was on the other end.

That's a big deal for kids when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

You know I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

My father still is a lawyer and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in children and teaching and writing.

My mom is like this hard-core liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Imagine my surprise when after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said 'Mom they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids like my mom and my sister do.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood when no one can teach them anything!

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities this drives men from their homes this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.