Boarding Quotes
116 quotes by 106 authors
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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
— Arabella Weir
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I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my…
— Shaun White
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The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
— Shaun White
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and…
— Olivia Wilde
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I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world…
— Colm Toibin
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My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school…
— Rick Riordan
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Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
— Libba Bray
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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill…
— Alice Sebold
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The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.
— Rick Riordan
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to…
— Walter de La Mare
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Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she…
— Rick Riordan
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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You aren't worried are you?" "Why should I be worried? It's just another day in the neighborhood. You know - bombs, fires, people shooting at…
— Christine Feehan
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There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And…
— Amy Hempel
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Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.
— Lauren Kate
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As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match…
— Jung Chang
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This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant…
— Ann Hood
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A system of bus rapid transit is not only dedicated lanes. You have to have really good boarding conditions - that means paying before entering…
— Jaime Lerner
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed.…
— Maika Monroe
Who Wrote These Boarding Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 116 Boarding Quotes, led by these top contributors: