Quotes by Ivy When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader. Walter E. Williams splitsivyleague The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut. Walter Raleigh ivynutsmen The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. William C. Bryant minglingivytree As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. William Cowper rottenivystones The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy. William F. Buckley, Jr. punishmentivydog I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn. William Henry Hudson ivynatureflower«123456
