Top 200 Ivory Quotes & Sayings

One thing I wanted to do from when I was young was buy my parents a house. I have done that in Ivory Coast.

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

A group of artists in Ivory Coast recorded a song about me.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

I was born in a tiny place in Ivory Coast, so being a protagonist in this life is a dream.

I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.

Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

Socrates was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory tower somewhere.

There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China.

We wish to firmly demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory. Poachers and illegal trades in ivory must know that their days are numbered.

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

I was waiting for something to sink my teeth into, so I was all-in to be Miss Ivory of The RTC. It was great fun too!

Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup.

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.