Teaching quotes

“There's a lot of people out there, and they ain't just gonna go away. They got voices now and they're goin' to be listened to. Putting them in jail is not going to stop them. That's the power of the press, Joe. So thanks for teaching me about it.”
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“Why is every fucking thing the real world except teaching?”
Sir Sean Connery - Paul Armstrong

“- Marie Alweather: Paulie is helping me learn some new words.
- Warren Alweather: Birds don't teach.”

Hallie Eisenberg - Marie Alweather
Matt Craven - Warren Alweather

“- Calvin: There's a man who throws the ball to a man who has a bat.
- Adam Age 11: Oh! The nocturnal flying mammal?”

Christopher Walken - Calvin
Douglas Smith - Adam age 11

“- Rose Dewitt Bukater: Teach me to ride like a man.
- Jack Dawson: [speaking with a southern American accent] And chew tobacco like a man.
- Rose Dewitt Bukater: [trying to imitate the southern American accent] And spit like a man!
- Jack Dawson: What, they didn't teach you that in finishing school?”
Kate Winslet - Rose Dewitt Bukater
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jack Dawson

“- Jack's Mother: What it is you do, Mr. Staggliano?
- Vinny Staggliano: College professor.
- Jack's Mother: What do you teach?
- Vinny Staggliano: College stuff. What are you, a fucking cop?”
Bernadette Birkett - Jack's Mother
Ray Liotta - Vinny Staggliano

“- Daniel: Karate's fighting. You train to fight.
- Miyagi: That what you think?
- Daniel: [pondering] No.
- Miyagi: Then why train?
- Daniel: [thinks] So I won't have to fight.
- Miyagi: [laughs] Miyagi have hope for you.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“You can not ask a devout people to disregard a precious teaching.”
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk - Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old

“Charles was more than a leader, more than a teacher. He was a friend. When we were afraid, he gave us strength. When we were alone, he gave us a family. He may be gone, but his teachings live on through us, his students. Wherever we may go, we must carry on his vision. And that is a vision of a world united.”

Halle Berry - Ororo Munroe

“To understand, one has only to listen.”
Keye Luke - Grandfather

“Take the fall! Act hurt! Get indignant!”

“- Doug Bigelow: Roger, you were underwater in that Jacuzzi for five straight minutes.
- Roger Mortis: That's right, I was.
- Doug Bigelow: Can you teach my girlfriend how to do that?”
Joe Piscopo - Doug Bigelow
Treat Williams - Roger Mortis

“- Fremen: You will never rid this planet of the Harkonnens with guerilla raids, boy.
- Paul: That is why I am asking you for a hundred of your young men. I wish to teach them the weirding way. So those hundred can come back to you and teach hundreds more. And those hundreds will teach hundreds more. Hundreds will become thousands.”
Alec Newman - Paul Atreides

“- Eddie Sparks: Alright. How long's it now been - eight years since Michael is dead?
- Dixie Leonard: You shut up!
- Eddie Sparks: No. You let me talk. Now enough is enough here. That boy needs a father. He needs a man in his life - somebody he can talk to, somebody who can teach him, somebody who can show him.”
James Caan - Eddie Sparks
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard

“Discipline's the thing. A seaman's a seaman, a captain's a captain. And a midshipman is the lowest form of animal life in the British navy.”

Charles Laughton - Bligh

It's dad's fault if I'm ignorant, because he never tells me about anything useful. If you ask him why Beethoven is so wonderful, he says stuff like "Beethoven is the sound of God, talking in his sleep".
Robert Norman - Fraser

“- Ray: Hey, did you teach your students how to make things like this?
- Mr. Mehlor: Have you been in a high school recently? My students taught ME how to make stuff like this.”
Ricky Harris - Ray
Dann Florek - Mr. Mehlor

“- Ginger: I thought you were teaching us how to fly.
- Rocky: That's what I'm doing.
- Ginger: Isn't there usually some flapping involved?
- Rocky: Hey, do I tell you how to lay eggs?”

Julia Sawalha - Ginger
Mel Gibson - Rocky

“They're the wrong things that seem right at the time... but... uh... even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, or sometimes the wrong things... may be right at the wrong time, or vice versa.”

Cliff Edwards - Jiminy Cricket

“Are you guys mentally challenged? Because, if you are, then I'm certified to teach you baseball.”
Spencer Locke - Jenny

“No! Not another one! How many kids are they gonna make me teach?”

James Tolkan - Mr. Thorn

“- Eileen: It's the language of love.
- Tucker: I didn't know the language of love had words, ma'am.
- Eileen: Oh my, yes. I could teach you.”
Andie MacDowell - Eileen Spenser
James Le Gros - William Tucker

“- Max Landsberger: Were losing money hand over fist.
- Jack Issel: That's not true.
- Max Landsberger: No, but it's our side of the story. Lesson No.55: there are no truths, only stories.”
Richard Masur - Max Landsberger
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel

“Trouble like first love - teaches many lessons.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan