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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.

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I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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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.

Quotes by Adam Rickitt

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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.

Quotes by Wendy Cope

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I spent half my life in a boarding school where we were shown only the sporadic wholesome classic like 'The Sound Of Music.' So, I am not familiar with most of the works of the acting greats in Bollywood, Hollywood,...

Quotes by Vijay Deverakonda

Age Quotes

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I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

Quotes by Ty Simpkins

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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...

Quotes by Tucker Carlson

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

Quotes by Tom Ridge

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Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Quotes by Terry Eagleton

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I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and...

Quotes by Teddy Thompson

Father Quotes

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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course...

Quotes by Ted Naifeh

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