Famous Quotes

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."

Sally Ride on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Sally Ride

• "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience."

• "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience."

• "The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."

• "I did not come to NASA to make history."

• "It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission."