Boarding Quotes
116 quotes by 106 authors
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Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's…
— James Blunt
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was.…
— James Blunt
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I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I…
— Frank Bruno
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My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived…
— Steve Carell
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative…
— Tucker Carlson
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Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
— Graydon Carter
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
— Henry Cavill
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
— Darrell Royal
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I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.
— Karolina Kurkova
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I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies,…
— Raquel Welch
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I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't…
— Paul Walker
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Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
— Lily James
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I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to…
— Jared Harris
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What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked…
— Brad Dourif
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At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't…
— Diane Cilento
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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
— Chris Hughes
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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will…
— Josh Billings
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
— Roald Dahl
Who Wrote These Boarding Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 116 Boarding Quotes, led by these top contributors: