Ground zero Quote by Becket

“High school was ground zero for the Darwinian fittest. Clique Alpha to Clique Beta, and all the way down to Clique Omega, were your…

— Becket

“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate…

— James L. Stokesbury

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.

— Tyra Banks

I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'

— Taylor Cole

American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths…

— Khaled Hosseini

When I was in college, I wasn't in a fraternity or anything. I always wanted to jump around to all different types of cliques.

— Nick Gehlfuss

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

— Blake Lively

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

— Alexa Vega

I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.

— Blake Lively

“School life is like being on a monkey mountain...monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again...and a hierarchy gets established.”

— Shouko Akira

High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.

— Skyler Samuels

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and…

— Zoe Kravitz