Welcome to our collection of Middle School Quotes! Middle school is a unique time in everyone’s life, marked by a whirlwind of emotions, experiences, and discoveries. It’s a phase where friendships are forged, identities are shaped, and memories are made that last a lifetime. From the awkward moments to the heartfelt laughs, middle school is a journey filled with ups and downs that leave an indelible mark on us all.
In this compilation, we’ve gathered a diverse array of quotes that capture the essence of the middle school experience. Whether you’re reminiscing about your own middle school days or looking for inspiration and insight, these quotes offer a glimpse into the trials, triumphs, and truths of navigating those formative years. So, whether you’re seeking words of wisdom, humor, or nostalgia, dive into our collection and discover the sentiments that resonate with you. Get ready to relive those middle school moments and find the perfect words to encapsulate them. Remember, the journey through middle school is as unique as each individual, but the sentiments expressed in these quotes are universal. Now, without further ado, let’s explore the world of middle school quotes!
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision. Claire Scovell LaZebnik
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. James Patterson
I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school? Cecily Strong
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums. Brendon Urie
I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school. Abbi Jacobson
I was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school. Laurence Yep
What I’m really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren’t competent readers coming out of middle school, it’s really going to be hard for them in high school. James Patterson
When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn’t fit in, and it was pretty lonely. Pedro Pascal
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They’re the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. Zoe Kravitz
I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn’t help much either. It was really tough. Devon Bostick
I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn’t know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn’t think of it as a reality. Katie Cassidy
I didn’t even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn’t have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn’t think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not. Sara Paxton
When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons. Pete Docter
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did. Jenna Morasca
‘Middle school’ is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It’s a time a lot of kids feel like they don’t even have one good friend. Rebecca Stead
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. Aisha Tyler
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. Jana Kramer
I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary to middle school. Tu Youyou
My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band – it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun. Bria Skonberg
‘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. Monie Love
In middle school, I saw Chris Brown live, and I thought, ‘I can do that.’ And these girls are screaming for him. Shameik Moore
There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down… in middle school because they think it makes them attractive. Danica McKellar
I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in. Kay Granger
I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just start rapping – beating on the wall, beating on the table and freestyling. Damian Lillard
Like, from my middle school dance… the boys were on one side, and the girls were on the other side, and we never interacted with each other. Noah Schnapp
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target. Nicole Gale Anderson
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. Scott Westerfeld
By middle school, I said to myself that it’s time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself. Juan Felipe Herrera
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. Jensen Ackles
If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork. Lucas Till
If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more. Ariana Grande
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. Nyle DiMarco
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. Jesse Plemons
In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states – Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin – already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking. Tom Frieden
My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow. Zachary Levi
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. Lee Haney
Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention. Daphne Koller
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we’re like middle school children. Every time there’s a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there’s show tunes and fart noises. Darby Stanchfield
I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the ’80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I’m really embarrassed. Jordana Brewster
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. Brittany Snow
I’ve never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school. Carl Hiaasen
I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out. Rachel Bloom
My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night. Jeremy Lin
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. Laura Moser
A lot of people ask me, ‘How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?’ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it. Taylor Swift
I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out. Travis Scott
I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation. Stephen Curry
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. Christopher Mintz-Plasse
From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize. Henry Paulson
Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy. Maiara Walsh
I started cooking out of middle school depression. Zac Posen
I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me… simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy. Marcia Gay Harden
I just remember having the President’s Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, ‘How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?’ You would have the ‘Captain America Fitness Challenge.’ Jon Watts
I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the ’70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn’t. Patrick Wilson
I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. I had pictures of space up in my room way back in middle school, right next to the boy band posters! Christina Koch
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study. Kyle Chandler
I’ve always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn’t be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I’d play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for ‘Victorious’ before being in an episode of ‘iCarly.’ Spencer Boldman
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. Nick Kroll
I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw ‘Wicked,’ it made me feel really cool for being different… and you can carve that in stone! Jennifer Damiano
I started playing this game in the backyard, I started playing this game in middle school and going to go practice without any fans, without any sounds. Travis Kelce
I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of Latin immigrants in Atlanta, who didn’t speak any English. That prepared me for when I traveled. Eric Nam
My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that. Lindsey Shaw
My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an ‘o’ to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an ‘o’ at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo. Lizzo
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. Aidy Bryant
In middle school, I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup. I secretly bought Maybelline’s SuperStay 24-hr. concealer at CVS. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Gigi Hadid
I think I’m like that nerdy dad from middle school who always has a video camera, but in the same respect, I only take it out during interesting occasions. Casey Neistat
At elementary school I played every sport and then I started to like basketball more but then again I had phases with every sport where I wanted to play professionally, baseball, basketball and football. But then in middle school when I started to grow and I got better, I knew I wanted to play basketball. O. G. Anunoby
As for middle school, I had a really horrible era of style. I’d only play basketball with the boys during lunch, so I went through a phase of only wearing Lakers uniforms to school – that was cute! And then I kind of went through the Puma phase that everyone went through with the sweatsuits, which turned into Juicy Couture sweatsuits. Gigi Hadid
My fascination with women’s clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show. Alexander Chee
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs. Jenn Proske
In middle school, I really didn’t have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama. Adam Lambert
When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two years. Both of them were very generous with their time, guidance and advice. Jonathan Maberry
I’ve never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days. Jeff Kinney
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn’t start cartooning until I was in college. Jeff Kinney
I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn’t. I wish I could’ve just let it slide and not cared about it. Emeraude Toubia
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they’re being bullied. Dan Savage
I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn’t come into my life until late into high school. Harry Shum, Jr.
I really first got interested in music on a little bit of a deeper level maybe around sixth or seventh grade. I joined the middle school band. Justin Tucker
I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. Nicole Gale Anderson
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. Nikola Jokic
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn’t so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature – anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in. India de Beaufort
Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class. Ferid Murad
In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person. Nikki Reed
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. Paul Dano
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me. Miles Teller
I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up. Ariana Grande
To change the media, you’re gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you’re gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum. Rush Limbaugh
When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set of mathematics books and both of us would sit side by side and start solving problems. Suhasini Maniratnam
I love running. I’ve been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running. Ellie Kemper
My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always. Taylor Swift
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. Jeff Kinney
Nothing could be as hard as middle school. Zooey Deschanel
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he’s still popular. Adam McKay
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier. Don Kardong
In middle school, I had an ’87 Regal. That was unheard of. Young Jeezy
I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I’m really involved in the community. Nate Parker
It’s well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they’re in middle school. Sally Ride
I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn’t a difficult thing to pull out. Hayden Panettiere
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities. Danielle Brooks
I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year. Uzo Aduba