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I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. — Jonah Lomu

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard — Tyne O'Connell

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work. — Jasmine Guinness

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. — Henry Cavill

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals. — Stephen Leacock

Ah, such a good pretty one.' There was a pause, 'You even got yourself dressed up. — Charlotte Munro

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces. — Darrell Royal

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often. — Shaun White

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried. — Rupert Everett

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money. — Julian Casablancas

Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations. — Andrew Holleran

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

She may not be the prettiest, or the smartest, or the wealthiest at the Academy, but she could be kind. Anyone could be kind. — Alleece Balts

I think if there was a boarding school for personality makeovers, you'd probably get a scholarship. — Lauren Layne

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. — Belinda Stewart-Wilson

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. — Stephen Leacock

Our midnight feasts aren't so much 'lashings of ginger beer' as 'whatever booze we can smuggle in'. — Cat Clarke

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14. — Kevin Kwan

Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions. — Susan Kay

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. — Lily James

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school. — Jack Davenport

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

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

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

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

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas. — Bindi Irwin

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to. — Joe Strummer

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. — Wendy Cope

Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope. — C.S. Lewis

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it. — Flynn Meaney

Bare essentials. Like packing for paradise when you know you're boarding the barge to hell. — Suenammi Richards

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. — John McCarthy

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

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career. — Lilly Pulitzer

God. How would I cope if I went to jail? I'd never even been to boarding school. — J.L. Merrow

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. — Graydon Carter

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport. — Frank Bruno

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep. — Libba Bray

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

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all. — David Dastmalchian

Boarding school is a wicked thing. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. — Nolan Gould

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

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste. — Honore De Balzac

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is. — Haruki Murakami

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I should have known that the cruelty of girls is intensified here, living together 24/7, hundreds of miles away from home. — Cat Clarke

I think boarding school does give you an independence. — Deirdre O'Kane

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. — Libba Bray

Remember Boogie Rule #6 (Don't watch local children boogie killer surf and say hey they can. do it , I can do it,) You like die? — Robert Wintner

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company. — John Burnham Schwartz

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 mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons. — Stephanie Perkins

The petty worries of the
school room must not be carried to your home or boarding place. — Thomas E. Sanders

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. — Zora Neale Hurston

Everyone was boarding a night train, heading to a far-off destination. Tsukuru envied them. At least they had a place they needed to go to. — Haruki Murakami

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house. — Bret Harte

Discord Airlines is now boarding for takeoff. — Gayla Drummond

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. — William Eggleston

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded. — Maika Monroe

If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had. — Jason Day

...Cupid, who never shoots with a surer aim than through the steam of boarding-house hash, sniped him where he sat. — P.G. Wodehouse

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. — Roald Dahl

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas. — Ajay Mehta

I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth. — Sienna Miller