“ Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me? ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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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 everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record — Krakatoa, Mt… ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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