Sayed Kashua Quotes

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

When I was in fifth grade, I got bullied really nastily about my appearance.

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 was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

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.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

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 wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a young age. There was a lot of misplaced rage in high school towards me. My brothers and sisters identified it as bullying, but I didn't at the time.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

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.

One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.

Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, 'Yeah, it's just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.' You know you're not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that 'just happens.'

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

I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won't mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.