Boarding Quotations

I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends.

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel.

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 guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

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.

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

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

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'

I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

To be really in shape, it's dynamic. It's got to be a lot of different everything, always switching it up. So a good day for me would be hit the gym, do some sort of cross training in the gym and then go surfing and then maybe take a jiu-jitsu class at night or go swimming at night or go stand up paddle boarding in the evening.

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

One thing that in my reporting that I found and was amazed to find was that, as far as I could determine, neither high-level White House officials in the Bush administration nor even the top brass at the CIA even knew the history of water boarding when they approved it.

I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.

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 of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.

This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

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?

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 out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

A system of bus rapid transit is not only dedicated lanes. You have to have really good boarding conditions - that means paying before entering the bus and boarding at the same level. And at the same time having a good schedule and frequency.

I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

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.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

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

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

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.

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

Like everybody else, I enjoy my privacy and I don't want it invaded. At the same time, I enjoy breathing fairly regularly, and I don't want, for the sake of having to take my shoes off when I'm boarding a plane, to die because I got fussy about my shoes,

She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a small apartment across the street. She supported me pretty much for about a year while I tried to get work. Her parents had said that we could marry once I had a job and good prospects, and the seven-year contract qualified.

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.

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Four of the 12 were doing the mileage runs. They just basically got off the plane, got their boarding pass, and got back on.

he says before boarding a Red Line train, ''what I want, what I can do.

We switched to a different type of paper for our boarding passes, which resulted in over $700,000 savings annually.

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 that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.

I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.

It is something akin to boarding the Concorde and then discovering at the end of your trip that you had debarked at Grand Central Terminal.

I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.

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 side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

National Airport had been considered to be Congress' baby, ... Maybe ... because it was only a few minutes from a committee hearing to the boarding ramp.

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

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

What we seem to be seeing is a virus that's spreading fairly rapidly, particularly among groups of dogs in kennel and boarding situations.

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.

We are working on four core projects: 100 percent e-ticketing globally by the end of 2007; bar-coded boarding passes; common use of self-service check-in kiosks; and radio-frequency identification for baggage management.

We put temporary seats on the track and anywhere else we could, ... We made seats by boarding up the aisles.

We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the country or as they were boarding the planes.

We had planned to stay home and ride out the storm, not really believing that it would hit us, ... But on Saturday afternoon we realized that it was a huge storm headed straight for us and that it probably wasn't going to turn away. So we made the decision to leave. Jacob and I spent all Saturday boarding up the house and packing. We packed as if we'd never had a house, bringing everything we could possible fit in the car, and pulled out of the driveway at 8:15 Sunday morning.

Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.

Boarding is one of the things that drives passengers crazy. I think consumers intuitively will see the benefit to this, because people don't like climbing over other people.

As soon as the agent puts your name in for your reservation -- and it's already in the machine -- then the machine will not even spit out a boarding pass,

At the age of 12 I was going on to another boarding school in another part of the country. We change schools at 13 in this country.

Dr. Meyers is a specialist in this area and he determined right away what the problem was. I was about two seconds from boarding a plane back to Vancouver to spend a couple of days thinking about it, but I thought this was the best way to go.

There was a fairly fast reaction in the market. The plywood is in big demand for boarding up and repairs, ... We're anticipating the same thing to happen with sheetrock. All of that in houses that were flooded (that) have probably been destroyed and need to be replaced. That will be sometime down the road.

The state does not create veterans, the country does, and so the debt that is owed to our veterans and families is not a state debt, it is a national debt. So everywhere possible where a veteran is in a nursing home or a boarding home that is a care setting, we should first look to the Department of Veteran Affairs rather than the state to incur the costs.

The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.

Temperament, conviviality, moderation and the ability to get along with your colleagues are as important as ideology, ... was able to achieve unanimity on the most important decisions of his era simply by encouraging his fellow justices to live in the same boarding house, and discussing cases over glasses of Madeira.

Quite often, when a horse is reported missing, it has either managed to get free and has run away or it turns out to be a civil matter involving some sort of boarding disagreement. This doesn't mean that we're saying Mickey wasn't stolen. But, in the absence of any solid information, we simply don't know what happened to him.

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

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

December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.

And the evidence clearly showed that Ray was in the boarding house and the bathroom from which the shots that killed Dr. King were fired.

At lot of customers now feel comfortable issuing their own boarding passes at home. It buys them a few extra minutes when they get to the airport.

This boarding on the high seas was done on the express permission of the Cambodian government, the flag state of the vessel,

A lot of the time, I get so involved in boarding that I forget to fly the kite.

There were times when it was quite chaotic. It was very busy with a lot of luggage around. Sometimes it was literally a fight to get a boarding pass.

At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice

It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding up the windows and collecting food and water.

It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica, ... We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding up the windows and collecting food and water.

The biggest push behind this is to continue with our strong on-time performance, and boarding times can greatly affect that. This new policy will greatly improve our ability to depart on time.

I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

It was good training to think spatially and to think in terms of story boarding and so on. So I was already a filmmaker but I hadn't realized it yet.

Once established we are expecting to enroll between 20 and 30 students per year. Our initial budget calls for a minimum of 11 boarding students and three day students during the first year of operation.

I'm going to be helping them out, like boarding the place up as soon as it is cleared.

I learned a lot from observing my grandfather, a simple, honest, successful businessman, ... and from my various experiences at camp and in boarding schools.

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

I called the folks on Sunday when there was talk the storm would be a big one. I wondered about boarding up my house. They said the storms aren't much when they get to us, and the prediction was this one would turn east once it hit land.

I don't like roller coasters. I don't like bungee jumping. I don't like snow boarding really fast down the hill. I am not someone who is an adrenaline junkie.

You've got people who have animals who want to know about (getting their) animals cross-country. People with boats want to know about the lakes. People with horses want to know about boarding horses. It's really interesting.

Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv