I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

I know you very well, and I know you need a good English teacher.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)