Childhood Teasing Quotes

I love my name. I didn't used to when I was a kid. People called me Lucky Charms, after the breakfast cereal.

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the nickname.

Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!

A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since.

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

There is a page in 'Diary of a Worm' in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.

When I was younger, most people thought my lips looked like Tweety Bird's - there were always comments like that from family and neighbors.

I had long eyelashes and the other kids used to say I wore mascara.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'

Kids used to tease me and call me 'fille des etoiles,' which translates to 'daughter of the stars.'

I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.