Top 291 Boarding Quotes & Sayings

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had that look. I kind of adopted my boarding-school look, which made me stand out. Then the next thing you know, the first song on my first record is a song called "School Days." It's about going to the boarding school I went to. So then I just started to write about myself. The very first song I ever wrote was about a guy I met in a boatyard that we were working in. So I've always had this thing about sticking to more or less what I knew.

Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create the film - the world and it's characters. We meet almost every day and brainstorm the plot of the film. It's a highly collaborative process - and we continue to improve the story until we literally run out of time.

Our house was like a girls' boarding school. We were always fighting for each other's clothes.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.

I probably deserve a bit of a kicking. And having been to boarding school, I've learnt to enjoy a good beating.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Paddle boarding: it's the closest you get to walking on water.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.

I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

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

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.

A system of bus rapid transit is not only dedicated lanes. You have to have really good boarding conditions - that means paying before entering the bus and boarding at the same level. And at the same time having a good schedule and frequency.

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 brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing and went to boarding school when I was five.

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid.

I love paddle boarding. It gives me that feeling of peace as well as an opportunity to enjoy nature's true beauty.

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.

I wouldn't have liked to have gone to boarding school, but for boys it's different. Boys can thrive at boarding school. I assume they really love it.

When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

The only thing I wanted when I left school was independence. I had been at boarding school for many years. When you're boarding, nothing is your own and your whole day is scheduled. You're told when to sleep, what to eat and when. You have zero independence.

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

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

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 at boarding school.

I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.

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 naughty kids.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.