Boarding Quote by Joe Strummer

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

— Joe Strummer

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

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and…

— Rachael Stirling

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off…

— Wendy Cope

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

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…

— Jared Harris

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

— Mark Romanek

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

— Jasmine Guinness

When I was seventeen, I left Scotland to go to Kent, a well-to-do boarding school in Connecticut, where there was a contingent of really…

— KT Tunstall

I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education…

— Damian Lewis

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It…

— Alice Englert

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the…

— Colm Toibin