Boarding Quotes - page 4

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. (Steve Carell)
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. View quote
Raquel Welch
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch
I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. View quote
Shaun White
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often. View quote
Shaun White
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. View quote
Henry Cavill
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to. View quote
Joe Strummer
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. View quote
Terry Eagleton
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood. View quote
Marcus Brigstocke
My guru said you are too old. I thought I was young -- I was 26. And he said you can't and I said I can. I'll show you. He said it will take many sacrifices. And I said I'll give up anything you want. I didn't realise I would have to give up my family for that. I realise now if I had not gone for three months to Orissa my husband would not have run off with Parveen Babi. So it was really a giving up. My children had to go to boarding school after that -- there was no family. I had to give up my lifestyle, my friends, my smoking, my drinking. View quote
Protima Bedi
The first half of the 20th century in the United States and much of the world was an era when racial and ethnic differences determined even the most uncontrived actions. Stepping into a restaurant, boarding a train, engaging in sexual relationships, or running or voting for a public office were all ruled by notions of differences between groups. (Aberjhani)
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. View quote
Frank Bruno
The victory... was complete except for one final indignity. That was to Americanize the Indian... to exterminate the cultures along with the Indians. ...Orders went out from Washington that all male Indians must cut their hair short, even though many Indians believed that long hair had supernatural significance. ...Army reinforcements were sent to the reservations to carry out the order, and in some cases Indians had to be shackled before they submitted. ...attention of the Americanizers was concentrated on the Indian children, who were snatched from their families and shipped to boarding schools far from their homes... usually ... for eight years, during which time they were not permitted to see their parents, relatives, or friends. Anything Indian-dress, language, religious practices, even outlook on life... was uncompromisingly prohibited. ...They had suffered psychological death at an early age. View quote
Peter Farb
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. View quote
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. View quote
Josh Billings
You're a fine one to talk about motherhood," Eulalia replied. "You expelled your children from your womb directly into Swiss boarding schools. View quote
Michael Nava