Ivy quotes:

Send

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. -- Robert Evans
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater. -- Elizabeth Olsen
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. -- Thurgood Marshall
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. -- Bill Rancic
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. -- George Ade
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. -- Paul Giamatti
I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies. -- Rob Lowe
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. -- Paul Hawken
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. -- Ken Auletta
I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C. -- Sean Hannity
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
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
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 Supreme Court. -- Richard Land
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. -- Robert Reich
My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence. -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
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 as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. -- Michael N. Castle
I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. -- Camille Paglia
When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations. -- Joe Klein
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 go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect. -- Michael N. Castle
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. -- Henry Vaughan
My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough. -- Troian Bellisario
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. -- Michelle Malkin
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. -- Michael Douglas
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
For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House. -- Denise Juneau
I did a face plant. Ivy was her name. -- Jarod Kintz
--
Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes. -- Gail Carriger
There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America. -- Renzo Gracie
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton -- A. J. Burnett
You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money. -- Kim Harrison
This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me. -- Elizabeth Chandler
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction. -- E. L. Doctorow
ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country. -- Evan Wright
I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things. -- Jenny Slate
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. -- Liza Campbell
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. -- Jonathan Heatt
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
Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. -- Gail Carriger
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
Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another. -- Kim Harrison
Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats. -- Gail Carriger
Confused, I asked, "The coven's what?" "Plumber," Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. "You know. Stops leaks?" Oh goodie. I'm a leak. -- Kim Harrison
Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible. -- Gail Carriger
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money. -- Lorde
It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night. -- Andrea Mitchell
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled. -- Kim Harrison
That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun,' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly. -- Cindy Miles
--
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
--
Why Alexia that is quite beautiful. It does ot reflect your customary taste at all approved Miss Hisselpenny with glee. Trust Ivy to like the hideous thing for it's looks. -- Gail Carriger
Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. -- Kim Harrison
Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League. -- Allard K. Lowenstein
I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me. -- Liza Campbell
Rachel?â? came Ivyâ??s voice from her room. â??Whereâ??s my sword?â? â??In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood -- Kim Harrison
[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws). -- Liza Campbell
--
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochodaâ??s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet itâ??s indelibly her own. -- Dennis Lehane
A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government. -- Ken Auletta
Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department. -- Rush Limbaugh
Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department. -- Rush Limbaugh
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there. -- Robert Klein
Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. -- Gail Carriger
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
The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He's like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled "poor." He doesn't have any bad habits. He's never cranky with his kids. -- George Saunders
We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy. -- Robin Williams
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
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
There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one of the three different kinds is worth anything, and that they're so tiny and so small a group that you don't need to be worried. -- Rush Limbaugh
There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one of the three different kinds is worth anything, and that they're so tiny and so small a group that you don't need to be worried. -- Rush Limbaugh
--
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing. -- Barry Ritholtz
--
How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked. Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?" "He'd love to!" Gary said. Tristan shot him a look, "Good," said Ivy, failing to notice Gary's wink. "Ella can be a pillow hog, but all you have to do is roll over her. -- Elizabeth Chandler
i love you Ivy. I'll never stop loving you." "I prayed for one more chance to reach you," he said, "to tell you how much I love you and to tell you to keep on loving. Someone else was meant for you,Ivy, and you were meant for someone else. -- Elizabeth Chandler
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. -- Philip James Bailey
Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. --
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. -- William C. Bryant
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
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. -- John Milton
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
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. -- Amy Alcott
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. -- Peter De Vries
On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president. -- Dee Dee Myers
Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know. -- Shailene Woodley
Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.' -- Shailene Woodley
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to. -- Winona LaDuke
Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows. -- Alan Chadwick
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. -- Aaron Hill
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy -- Frank Lloyd Wright
But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. -- Miranda July
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls. -- Adrienne Rich
our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree. -- Chris Tinniswood
True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall. -- Thomas Carlyle
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. -- Publilius Syrus
I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. -- John Milton
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? -- Cesare Pavese
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy. -- Jay Asher
The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run. -- Caroline Hanson
A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin. -- Kate Christensen
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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
The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home. -- John Redmond
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. -- Pablo Neruda
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. -- Vincent Van Gogh
He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ... -- Philip Kerr
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. -- Malak El Halabi
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. -- Samuel Johnson
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
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Send