I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It's easier, isn't it? I… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and… — Joseph Mawle Copy Share Image
There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture. — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie… — Ty Simpkins Copy Share Image
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate… — Marie-Chantal Claire Copy Share Image
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
