Boarding Quotes

116 quotes by 106 authors

I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity… — Carey Mulligan
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any… — Jacques Derrida
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with… — Theodore Roosevelt
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. — Benedict Cumberbatch
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no… — Terry Eagleton
I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried. — Rupert Everett
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become… — Mark Haddon
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody… — Alice Hoffman
At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the… — Jeremy Irons
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and… — Arne Jacobsen
I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother… — Seth MacFarlane
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could… — Harry Mathews
I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth. — Sienna Miller
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at… — Bode Miller
I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17… — Marisa Miller
I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very… — Denise Mina
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one… — Mira Nair
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent… — Wilbur Smith
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to. — Joe Strummer
Boarding school is a wicked thing. — Kristin Scott Thomas

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