Boarding School Quotes

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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
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
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
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
Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money. — Julian Casablancas
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. — Henry Cavill
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
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
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. — Lily James
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
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
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
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
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all… — Adam Rickitt
Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the… — Loudon Wainwright III
If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will… — Ricardo Semler
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. — Curtis Sittenfeld
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career. — Lilly Pulitzer
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls'… — Michael Weatherly

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