Me Quotes

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

~ Michael Bennet

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.

~ Allison Schroeder

While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.

~ Johnny Colt

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

~ David E. Kelley

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

~ Sela Ward

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the 'Guardian' hating me. I like it when I read they want me to die painfully. Then I think I've really got under their skin. It's like annoying a teacher. Once they've shown signs of weakness, you really can go for them.

~ Jeremy Clarkson

I had a teacher when I was in college, and he was the first person who liked my photos and said, 'The way you look at girls is your own way of seeing.' He was the first person who really gave me the confidence to try something.

~ Sofia Coppola

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

~ Betsy Brandt

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

~ Nancy Roman

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.

~ Laverne Cox

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

~ Grazia Deledda

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

~ Martina Hingis

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

~ Gene Luen Yang

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

~ Robert Wyatt

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

~ Chevy Chase

I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too.

~ Jens Lekman

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

~ Frederick Douglass

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

~ Audre Lorde

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

~ Rosa Parks

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

~ Louis Pasteur

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

~ George Michael

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

~ Paul Watson

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

~ Carry Nation

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

~ Harriet Tubman

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

~ Robert E. Lee

When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.

~ Cesar Millan

Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.

~ Gisele Bundchen

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

~ Daniel Nathans

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.

~ John Piper

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

~ Mandy Patinkin

I can make all the throws. My mental side is a strength as far as understanding defense schemes and our playbook. I'm able to change plays when needed. I think that sets me apart.

~ Carson Wentz

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

~ Mary J. Blige

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

~ Yuvraj Singh

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

~ Margaret Keane

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

~ Huey Newton

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

~ Alicia Keys