Quotes About Bullying

I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.

Bullies always have another target.

Kids used to pick on me because I was quiet, I was an easy target. But I wasn't quiet because I was scared.

In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.

Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change.

I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

At school I hated swimming and felt bigger and more self-conscious than all the other girls - and I would go to summer sports camps to desperately try to change my shape so that it couldn't be one of the taunts aimed at me by bullies.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

While Matt Bevin insults teachers and bullies our neighbors, I'm focused on restoring decency and bringing people together to get real results for our families in Eastern Kentucky.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Bullies drive witnesses and bystanders out of their jobs, just as they do to "firsthand" victims. Research

But if somebody hit me, I'd hit him back. If I didn't, I would just be encouraging him to think he could hit me whenever he wanted to. Some people think they can take advantage of others, and if you don't let them know they can't, they'll just go around bullying anybody weaker than they are.

If you're ignorant, it's easy to be bullied.

If you're ignorant, it's easy to be bullied. If you know what you're talking about, you have a fighting chance.

But there is strength in numbers and at noon hour Emily found herself standing alone on the playground facing a crowd of unfriendly faces. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence

Nothing had spared her from being mocked for wetting her pants, not even the fact that she had rushed to the delegado's aid.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Mean is not crazy, it is merely mean.

It was like someone who is so used to being made fun of that they say the mean things first, try to make it their joke, so the bullies don't get a chance to cut them up. It works, in a way, but it means the person saying the words internalizes the message more, because they're the ones saying stupid, clumsy, fat, ugly—whatever the bullies might say.