Middle School Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Sports, Dream, Athlete

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• 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

  Girl, School, Trying

  "Lindsey Shaw Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. July 30, 2006.

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• People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

  David Wright

  School, People, Underdog

  Sean Platt, David Wright (2011). “Yesterday's Gone: Season One”, p.364, Sterling & Stone

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• 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

  School, Media, Curriculum

  "Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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• When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

  Jensen Ackles

  School, Pajamas, Middle

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

  Billy Mills

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is.

  Sofia Quintero

  Reading, School, People

  Source: www.nationalbook.org

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Heart, School, Mean

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• When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Kids, School

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• I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up.

  Ariana Grande

  Cheer, Stress, School

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• In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Running, Kings

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• Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

  Booker T. Washington

  Family, Success, Inspiration

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• 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

  Writing, School, Kids

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• The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Inspiration, Attention

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• I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Bullying, Party

  "I beat the bullying bitches… now I steer clear of suck-ups" by Emily Fairbairn, www.thesun.co.uk. March 07, 2013.

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• I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

  Melissa Bean

  Daughter, Mother, Teenager

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• I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.

  Takeo Spikes

  Dream, Team, School

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• I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Oregon, Facts

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.51, Portobello Books

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• I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew and Jennie would flinch and blush. Love is this great thing that most songs and books and poems and lives are all about. So the minute we actually think there might be love around, we start laughing and pretending and hiding from it.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Song, Book, School

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “The Girl Who Invented Romance”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Rejection

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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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• You can do it if you believe you can.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.44, Penguin

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• The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

  Dan Savage

  School, Kids, Eye

  "Stranger To Stranger: Dan Savage". Interview with Christopher Frizzelle, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2012.

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• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

  Dan Savage

  School, Kids, Gay

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

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