Ivy Quotes

Ivy Quote of the day

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

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.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

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.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

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.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

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.

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.

Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

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.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

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 up, girl, and I know why. You knew someday you were gonna touch the sky.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

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.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

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.

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.

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.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

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.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?” “In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood

You look like the vamp who bled the cat.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton

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.

Just come in there and stand before a live crowd, thousands of people at an Ivy League School, like Eleanor Roosevelt said, always do what you're afraid to do.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

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.