Ivy Quotes
129 quotes by 95 authors
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
— Richard Burton
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These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they…
— Michael N. Castle
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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…
— Art Buchwald
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It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost…
— Edith Wharton
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Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable…
— Toni Morrison
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Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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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
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You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
— Publilius Syrus
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By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet.…
— Taylor Mali
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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…
— Dennis Lehane
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I see you over there, just clinging to the wall. Because they told you like ivy you were bound to crawl. But you kept looking…
— John Hiatt
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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…
— Doug Flutie
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Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are…
— Russell Baker
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It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and…
— Francesca Lia Block
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
— Thomas Carlyle
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By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just…
— Michael N. Castle
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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…
— Walter E. Williams
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I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the…
— Richard Land
Who Wrote These Ivy Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 129 Ivy Quotes, led by these top contributors: