William Hundert: Sir, it's my job to mold your son, and I think if.
Senator Bell: Mold him? Jesus God in Heaven, son. You're not gonna mold my boy. Your job is to teach my son. You teach him his times tables. Teach him why the world is round. Teach him who killed who and when and where. That is your job. You, sir, will not mold my son. I will mold him.
Deepak Mehta: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child.
William Hundert: The waters in which we found ourselves swimming, were precisely as lovely as those we had earlier only imagined. But if time had made concessions for love, it made none for death.
William Hundert: Tyranny is what we have in this classroom. It works.
William Hundert: The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
William Hundert: Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?