Quotes by Ivy People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton A. J. Burnett ivyself-worthpeople Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. Aaron Hill oaksivymen Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls. Adrienne Rich wallsubjectsivy Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows. Alan Chadwick devilivypoison Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago, they used to appear wearing robes and golden girtles," Ivy explained. "They sound like losers," Xavier muttered. Alexandra Adornetto ivysoundlong Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over. Ann Brashares honestyivyfighting When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. Anthony Trollope wallivystrong The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was lost somewhere in the trees and thicket and down through the poison ivy. It was during one of these searches that I vowed to the Lord above that if I ever earned enough money I would never set foot on a course again. Art Buchwald ivyplaygolf I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club. Bob Saget ivykidsschool There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid. Camille Paglia ivyclasswar Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? Cesare Pavese innuendoivy Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. Charles Dickens cellsivylife Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. Christina Rossetti ivyperfecttime Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky. Dan Brown ivyreadingmen I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak. Deanna Raybourn ivyfortunelittles It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying. Debora Spar tv-showsivyleague No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. Dee Dee Myers ivystrugglethinking Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own. Dennis Lehane painvoiceivy I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size. Doug Flutie ivyleagueschool Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues. Edward Abbey ivyleagueschool123456»
