It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery.
- Kage Baker
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 family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
- James Blunt
Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
- Libba Bray
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
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 with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
- 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 you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
- Diane Cilento
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.
- Rupert Everett
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
- Mark Shields
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 to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.
- Jared Harris
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
- Alice Hoffman
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
At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
- Jeremy Irons
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
- Arne Jacobsen
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
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
- William Standish Knowles
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 smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
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 get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
- Harry Mathews
God. How would I cope if I went to jail? I'd never even been to boarding school.
- J L Merrow
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 skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.
- Bode Miller
I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.
- Sienna Miller
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 just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
- Adam Rickitt
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
- George Shearing
... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry
- Adriana Trigiani
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
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, but you can't buy love.
- Raquel Welch
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 then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
- Olivia Wilde
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
- Emma Willard
- Kage Baker
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 family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
- James Blunt
Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
- Libba Bray
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
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 with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
- 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 you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
- Diane Cilento
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.
- Rupert Everett
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
- Mark Shields
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 to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.
- Jared Harris
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
- Alice Hoffman
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
At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
- Jeremy Irons
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
- Arne Jacobsen
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
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
- William Standish Knowles
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 smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
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 get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
- Harry Mathews
God. How would I cope if I went to jail? I'd never even been to boarding school.
- J L Merrow
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 skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.
- Bode Miller
I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.
- Sienna Miller
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 just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
- Adam Rickitt
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
- George Shearing
... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry
- Adriana Trigiani
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
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, but you can't buy love.
- Raquel Welch
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 then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
- Olivia Wilde
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
- Emma Willard
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