Top 165 Middle School Quotes

I’ve always been pretty reserved, but after taking drama classes in middle school to get more comfortable performing in front of people, I thought I should try out for television.

From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it’s just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That’s not going to change.

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

I’ve been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

‘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.

I don’t get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with ‘Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life’, it was fun to let loose.

I spent most of my days in school being a class clown. I never shut up. By the time I was in middle school, I had myself a personal aide.

I was kind of a tomboy. I was the girl in middle school with the floods on – I wasn’t fashionable at all.

In middle school, I had an ’87 Regal. That was unheard of.

I was a religious ‘SNL’ watcher all through middle school. I was obsessed with Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri – they were on right when I found the show. Then I started watching the older episodes, and it just totally blew my mind that my dream show already existed.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

I started getting into clothes when I was really young. And then I went through a phase in middle school where I didn’t care at all. But after that, after high school, I really got into high fashion. Balmain, Givenchy, Louboutin, all that.

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.

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.

There’s something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We’re really impressionable during that period. The cement’s still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don’t know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

Director Lee Chang-dong’s 1997 noir ‘Green Fish.’ I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could not completely understand the film and where it was getting at, I still found it extremely powerful.

In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

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.

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.

They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn’t stick. Except on running plays.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

I haven’t done improv since I was in middle school.

Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations – and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.

In middle school, I had the best math teacher I’ve ever had, and he was deaf… and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens.

I feel, as an adult, I’m very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it’s a case of arrested development, but I feel like it’s easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we’d all act like we did in middle school.

I didn’t have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition over to acting full-time was working at an after-school program at a middle school teaching improv and standup. So even when I had a regular job, I was still lucky enough to be doing the stuff I loved in some way.

I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn’t really date the dude with the saxophone.

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They’re like pictures of yourself in middle school. You’re embarrassed to see them.

I was super insecure in middle school; I didn’t tell anyone I swam because it wasn’t the cool sport to be doing.

Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters – the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology.

I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.

The first time I ever saw a horror movie, I think I was in middle school, and we watched ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and ‘It’ at a slumber party.

Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that’s just how things worked in south Florida. I would practice six or seven days each week. I honestly don’t know how my parents did it, but my dad always found a way to make it to each and every game.

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that’s when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A’s, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he’d spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they’d experienced together.

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.

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.

It’s refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.

My schedule won’t allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school.

I’m just playing basketball, the same way I have always played, from juniors and even back to middle school, I’m just doing it the same way. Nothing different. Just a team game, playing and having fun and trying to play the right way.