Boarding Quotes
116 Boarding quotes by 106 unique authors
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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
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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
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I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.
— Sienna Miller
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
— Joe Strummer
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Boarding school is a wicked thing.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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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
Who Wrote These Boarding Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 116 Boarding Quotes, led by these top contributors: