Junior High Quotes

• When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

  Josh Groban

  Confused, Juniors, Remember

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Home, School

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• When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

  Faith Ford

  Cheerleading, School, Lines

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• I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, School, Profound

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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• From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Wall, Couple

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• Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, School, College

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• When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

  Catherine Bell

  Girl, Softball, Football

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspirational, Teacher, School

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• I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

  Jim Brown

  School, Games, Islands

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• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  Rainn Wilson

  Team, School, Chess

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• I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

  Harvey Pekar

  School, Kids, Ems

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

  Yancy Butler

  America, Juniors, Alumni

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• I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

  Tommy Lee

  School, Band, Juniors

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• I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

  Richard Foreman

  Senior, School, Aggravation

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• I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

  Christopher Darden

  Moving, School, Thinking

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• My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, My Mom

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• I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Mom, Friday, Brother

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• What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

  Scott Hamilton

  Friendship, Girl, Sports

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• We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

  Nick Cannon

  School, Shoes, Two

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• The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

  Lorna Luft

  School, Careers, Juniors

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir".

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• In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

  Travis Barker

  Men, Piano, Juniors

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• I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Cutting

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• As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  School, Kids, Thinking

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