"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt,……" — Ilya Ehrenburg
"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."
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15 Quotes by Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Ehrenburg has 15 quotes on this site.
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Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or…
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Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the…
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Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German…
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has…
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture…
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as…
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Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of…
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Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
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More Asphalt Quotes
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more…
— John Huston
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Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror…
— James Tabor
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Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the…
— Andrew Nikiforuk
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Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and…
— Marilyn
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Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries.…
— Robert Macfarlane
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand,…
— Robert Macfarlane
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran…
— Cale Yarborough
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At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an…
— Jens Voigt
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I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try…
— Tim Cordes
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I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown…
— Diana Dors
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In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady…
— Alan Weisman
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