50 Quotes About Boarding

  • Author Katharine Cornell
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    I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

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  • Author Marie-Chantal Claire
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    I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

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  • Author Tom Curley
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    I learned a lot from observing my grandfather, a simple, honest, successful businessman, ... and from my various experiences at camp and in boarding schools.

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  • Author Charles Dickens
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    I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv

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  • Author Ben Elliot
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    My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

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  • Author Ella Eyre
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    I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'

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  • Author Larry Evans
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    Once established we are expecting to enroll between 20 and 30 students per year. Our initial budget calls for a minimum of 11 boarding students and three day students during the first year of operation.

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  • Author Scott Eastwood
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    To be really in shape, it's dynamic. It's got to be a lot of different everything, always switching it up. So a good day for me would be hit the gym, do some sort of cross training in the gym and then go surfing and then maybe take a jiu-jitsu class at night or go swimming at night or go stand up paddle boarding in the evening.

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