Top 100 Quotes About Middle School
#1. I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play with her. I take two classes at middle school, math and chorus, and I love walking home with her after school.
Emily Alyn Lind
#2. I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.
Jennie Finch
#3. I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me ... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.
Marcia Gay Harden
#4. Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why
is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says
people need to shave twice a day.
Jeff Kinney
#5. There are some things, like your eighth grade boyfriend kissing some other girl at a middle school dance, that are easy to forgive. And there are some things that are just unforgivable.
Jennifer Mathieu
#6. Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
Maiara Walsh
#7. I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.
Katie Cassidy
#8. I was bullied every second of every day in elementary and middle school.
Obviously, people are going to bring you down because of your drive.
But, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and
go the other way.
Selena Gomez
#9. Why did Thor send you back to middle school?" I asked. "That seems especially cruel." She
Rick Riordan
#10. I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.
Rebecca Stead
#11. By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#12. I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
J. Cole
#13. People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
Aisha Tyler
#14. In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.
Russell Wilson
#15. I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.
Emeraude Toubia
#16. Don't make me turn on the room's ability blockers. I'm not teaching middle school here. And turn off your phones, people.
Kasie West
#17. Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.
Ferid Murad
#18. My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.
Lindsey Shaw
#19. When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
William Bell
#20. 'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.
Rebecca Stead
#21. I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.
Cheyenne Kimball
#22. Kelly held up a finger. "No half-assed middle school kissing, either."
"Okay."
"I want the whole deal."
"This is starting to feel like I'm leasing a car or something."
"I'm serious, I want the Irish special."
Nick rolled his eyes and looked up at the ceiling. "Fine. Jesus.
Abigail Roux
#23. By middle school, students have an image of themselves as readers or nonreaders. Students who do not read see reading as a talent that they do not have rather than as an attainable skill.
Donalyn Miller
#24. I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.
Tom DeLonge
#25. I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?
Richelle Mead
#26. In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!
Elizabeth Gillies
#27. Via had warned me about lunch in middle school, so I guess I should have known it would be hard.
R.J. Palacio
#28. I think I'm like that nerdy dad from middle school who always has a video camera, but in the same respect, I only take it out during interesting occasions.
Casey Neistat
#29. Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#30. Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
Daphne Koller
#31. In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.
Danielle Brooks
#32. I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.
Chris Zylka
#33. That's me, by the way, arriving at "prison" - also known as Hills Village Middle School - in
James Patterson
#34. I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different ... and you can carve that in stone!
Jennifer Damiano
#35. I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
Nicole Anderson
#36. My point is that in middle school you kind of get known for what you're into, and you
have to be careful about stuff like that.
R.J. Palacio
#37. I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'
Spencer Boldman
#38. It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'
Jacob Artist
#39. High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
Kyle Chandler
#40. Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.
Rick Riordan
#41. It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#42. I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.
Xeno Muller
#43. Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.
Misty Copeland
#44. Jeff got an idea that might work. What if he wrote an illustrated journal from the point of view of a middle-school kid?
Patrick Kinney
#45. 'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.
Monie Love
#46. To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.
Rush Limbaugh
#47. I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.
Miles Teller
#48. I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.
Sara Paxton
#49. In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
Young Jeezy
#50. What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
James Patterson
#51. Middle school is like one of those highway restrooms in the middle of nowhere. It's dirty and smelly and it's crowded with strange people.
Anonymous
#52. You had better not," I shouted after him."Do you hear me,O'Malley? I will tell Gavin's sister you slept with a stuffed bunny abbit until you were in middle school,so help me God!
Jennifer Echols
#53. I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.
Hayden Panettiere
#54. All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
B.o.B
#55. There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.
James Lankford
#56. I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
Rachel Bloom
#57. I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.
Jordana Brewster
#58. I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.
Dianna Agron
#59. I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
Tracy Morgan
#60. Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.
Nick Kroll
#61. When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.
Miles Teller
#62. In middle school, I saw Chris Brown live, and I thought, 'I can do that.' And these girls are screaming for him.
Shameik Moore
#63. Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean
#64. Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.
R.J. Palacio
#65. I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.
Evangeline Lilly
#66. It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.
Issa Rae
#67. I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
Cecily Strong
#68. I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
#69. These are the cafeteria ladies. I call them Millie, Billie, and Tilly. I think they're part of a government program to get rid of the middle school population in this country, one lunch at a time.
James Patterson
#70. In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.
Tyler Oakley
#71. If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.
Ariana Grande
#72. I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#73. When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.
Pete Docter
#74. In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
Adam Lambert
#75. Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.
Misty Copeland
#76. In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
Jesse Plemons
#77. I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
Abbi Jacobson
#78. I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.
Laurence Yep
#79. I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.
Paul Dano
#80. My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone.
Caroline Kepnes
#81. I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at writing poetry. I mean, the distillation, I think, is hard for me, but I love poetry.
Jesmyn Ward
#82. I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons. - Greg Heffley,
Jeff Kinney
#83. You're a disgusting, shallow, womanizing jackass, and I hope that soda stains your preppy little shirt." Just before I marched away, i looked over my shoulder and added, "And my name isn't Duffy. it's Bianca. we've been in the same homeroom since middle school, you selfabsorbed son of a bitch.
Kody Keplinger
#84. My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
Jana Kramer
#85. Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn't fit in ... .I'd stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That's when I started to realize there's this thing called rejection.
Taylor Swift
#86. This gap perpetuates a cycle of injustice in our society that often begins in middle school with suspension practices.
Phyllis Hunter
#87. If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.
Charles Gilman
#88. McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
Adam McKay
#89. When I was in middle school, I tried to impress this girl by jumping over this ledge on a scooter. I caught the edge of the ledge and totally fell right in front of her. I never talked to her again. So [my advice is], take it easy if you have a school crush!
Kevin Jonas
#90. I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson
#92. The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into her leg and thought of all the girls she'd known in middle school who'd wanted ponies of their own. She wondered if they were insane.
Cassandra Clare
#93. I'd always thought that being seen was about what people perceived with their eyes. But by the time the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School made the fall trip to the aquarium, I, Suzy Swanson, had disappeared entirely. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.
Ali Benjamin
#94. ...the bad thing was that Ollie started crying. It was this basic rule of middle school that if someone messed with you, you were supposed to just take it like a psychopath. Only Ollie wasn't one.
Brenna Yovanoff
#95. When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
Don Kardong
#96. They don't have classes on bravery in middle school. If they did I'd have signed up. It would have been helpful to learn how to stare down what I feared most and not blink.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#97. I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
Carl Hiaasen
#98. You got to miss class to do it. Like, many periods of school. And then they took us to an elementary or middle school, and we told kids that they could be cool when they grew up even if they didn't do drugs.
Ilana Glazer
#99. There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.
Karen Joy Fowler
#100. People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.
David Wright
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