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Boarding Quotes

Looking back on boarding school years.

These Home quotes look back on boarding school life, from the reasoning parents give for sending children away to the sheltered viewing habits and unexpected hobbies that filled those years.

American fantasy is not a genre we think about too often. Sure, we are familiar with the worlds of English boarding school houses and castles and fairies, but true American fantasy, fantasy that is built on the land of this...

Quotes by Rebecca Serle

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.

Quotes by Raquel Welch

I had been kind of quite porky and happy at boarding school and not self-conscious at all; then, suddenly, I found myself in auditions being examined, and it made me angry.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our...

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

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.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

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

Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never...

Quotes by Pico Iyer

I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me...

Quotes by Pattie Boyd

I was a fat little boy when I was 10 years old! My mother, who didn't speak any English at all, said, 'I know the only thing is to put him in an English boarding school. The food will be...

Quotes by Omar Sharif

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.

Quotes by Olivia Wilde

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in...

Quotes by Mira Nair

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

Quotes by Mickey Rooney

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to...

Quotes by Michael Weatherly

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south...

Quotes by Michael Smith

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.

Quotes by Mark Shields

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

Quotes by Mark Romanek

Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption...

Quotes by Mario J. Molina

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.

Quotes by Marie-Chantal Claire

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

Quotes by Marcus Brigstocke

Frequently Asked Questions

What perspectives on boarding school does this collection cover?
A mix of practical, nostalgic, and career-reflective views. One quote argues that parents who want to send you to boarding school probably have the right instinct, while another recalls spending half a life at one, sheltered from most acting and film culture beyond the occasional classic.
Is there a quote about hobbies or activities from boarding school life?
Yes, one lists an unusually varied set of pursuits tied to that period: improv, cello, fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in summer, and snowboarding in winter — painting boarding school life as full rather than isolating.
Does this collection reflect on career paths connected to boarding school?
One quote recalls being certain, during that time, about wanting to become either a teacher at a boarding school or a CIA operative posted abroad, framing boarding school as a formative backdrop to early ambition rather than just an education setting.
Why search for boarding school quotes specifically?
They tend to resonate with readers reflecting on formative years spent away from home, which connects naturally with Home quotes for the contrast, and Age quotes for the coming-of-age angle.
What related topics pair with Boarding quotes?
For the family side of sending a child away to school, Father quotes fits well, while Life quotes suits the broader reflective tone found across this set.

For more on growing up and finding direction, see our Good quotes and Age quotes.