Tom Junod Quotes

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

I did bully somebody. I was insecure.

Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Even when I was growing up and playing with friends I used to get kicked.

I weighed 84 pounds when I was 14. I was an easy target for the other kids.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

I was a bully while growing up.

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.

At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers' eye and being bullied for it.

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

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.

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.