Ivy Quotes - Page 7

• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Dog, Punishment, Police

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• 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

  Boys, College, Opposites

  Source: www.rd.com

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• The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Wall, Growing Up, Careers

  "Rebooting Philanthropy in Silicon Valley". Interview with Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

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• The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

  Tracy Thompson

  Circles, Anxiety, Pulse

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.43, Diversion Books

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• The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City. The traditional meal often includes gefilte fish. For those of you who don't know what gefilte fish is, it strongly resembles a ball of tuna fish that has been passed nasally. It's not good. During Passover, the angel of death passed over the Jews - an event that, up until the late 1950s, was re-enacted every year by Ivy League colleges and suburban country clubs.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, New York, Angel

  "Other News - Yeast of Burden". "The Daily Show" official website, March 31, 1999.

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• I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, Kids, Hands

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  School, Kids, League

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 02, 2010.

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• 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

  Tv Shows, League, Misunderstood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

  Maria Popova

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

  Mervyn Peake

  Night, Long, Heaven

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Wall, Lovely, Robins

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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• Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

  Hilary Mantel

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Effort, Plot

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• 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

  League, Valleys, Breeding

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• 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

  Running, Romance, Hell

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• 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

  School, Government, Engineering

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Gpa

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• 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

  Jobs, Men, Evil People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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