Tori Amos Quotes

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

I was an angry kid, and boxing kept me out of trouble.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

I think children are really violent with each other often.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

Being singled out as 'The Ugly One' led to depression.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.

I was never bullied at school.

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

Since the beginning of time people have said mean things to each other in a fight, no matter what.

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

Bullies have a soft spot, and mean girls have a reason to be that way. It's a matter of understanding why a person is the way they are.

The bullies don't realize the effects they're having on the kids who are being bullied. They aren't in that situation themselves and are just looking for an audience.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it's true.

We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.

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.