Antony Beevor Quotes

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

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

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

I grew up eating and loving Persian food, going to school, and everyone making fun of me.

It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.

We were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I'd get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn't like me, either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

I've been bullied a few times in school.

Going to school, sort of not realising that caring about things was going to make me stand out and make me weird, and I think also being a redhead and being tall, bigger than the other kids... Anything that makes you different at school makes you a target.

Growing up I couldn't always get involved with the activities with all the other kids because if I overworked my body it would trigger my pain. There were definitely times growing up, where other kids wanted to challenge me; they wanted to see if they could push my buttons and see if I could fight or what have you. Taking my kindness for weakness or taking my quietness and laid-back style for weakness. I've been dealing with that for basically all my life.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

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

In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.

School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.