50 Quotes About Boarding
- Author C. C. H. Pounder
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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- Author C. C. H. Pounder
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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- Author Mark Romanek
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Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
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- Author Mickey Rooney
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I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
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- Author Tom Ridge
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There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.
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- Author Belinda Stewart-Wilson
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I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.
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- Author Joe Strummer
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The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It's easier, isn't it? I mean, it gets kids out the way, doesn't it?
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- Author John Burnham Schwartz
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In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
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- Author Mary Shelley
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At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
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