#boarding

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#few #growing #growing up #i #independent

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out. ↗

— Jared Harris

#awful #been #boarding #boring #england

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#i #i love #level #love #never

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#skating #snowboarding #spawn

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. ↗

— Bam Margera

#fall #getting #how #hurt #just

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#torture #waterboarding #hypocrisy

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion. ↗

— James Blunt

#away #being #boarding #boarding school #could

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#boarding school #cried #i #school #seven

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#boarding #boarding school #crap #having #just

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils