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Quotes About Bullying

When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.
~ Billy Casper
I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
~ Joan Smalls
People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.
~ Ashley Graham
At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
~ Candice Swanepoel
There are a lot of people out there who are just bullies. They constantly keep telling you that you are too fat, too thin, your teeth are not fine, you can't speak English really well, and you are too short, etc.
~ Huma Qureshi
In school, I was always a fat girl. No matter how thin you are, but girls always have this thing in mind that I am a little fat.
~ Huma Qureshi
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying.
~ Julianne Moore
Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.
~ Tom Felton
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
~ Bruce Springsteen
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
~ Aisha Tyler
I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.
~ Keke Palmer
It's important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it's even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!
~ Normani Kordei
I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.
~ Grant Gustin
The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
~ Bryant H. McGill
his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.
~ Ross MacDonald
There is ample reason to question whether low self-esteem is to blame for violence. Think of the obnoxious, hostile, or bullying people you have known—were they humble, modest, and self-effacing? (That's mainly what low self-esteem is like.) Most of the aggressive people I have known were the opposite: conceited, arrogant, and often consumed with thoughts about how they were superior to everyone else.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
Yes," she said in a voice squeaky with fright. She was younger and still attractive then; she hadn't yet allowed her body to engorge. I have noted since that some kinds of men like to bully beautiful women.
~ Margaret Atwood
Girls of that age can be quite sadistic.
~ Margaret Atwood
Had he thought the power to make folk miserable was a greater power than to play fair with them? That was a mistake common to small-witted people—to think good was a weaker thing than evil. From all that Joliffe had seen, evil—in both its greater ways and in such petty ones as bullying—was the weak man's
~ Margaret Frazer
all the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You should have insured a place for your children in the social scheme years ago—but you didn't. You didn't even bother to keep what position you had. And it's too much to hope that you'll mend your ways at this late date. You're too anxious to make money and too fond of bullying people.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
~ Katherine Jenkins
The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.
~ Ryan Lewis
If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?
~ Chad Anderson