You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Quotes about asphalt (16 Quotes)
Many portions of the park weren't ready. Attractions broke down. The asphalt was still drying on Main Street. Women's high heels were sinking into the asphalt. Also, there was a plumbers' strike, and Walt had the choice of having either working restrooms or working drinking fountains. He chose the restrooms, of course.
On average, 80 per cent of all asphalt pavement is now recycled. That's taken a great deal of weight off landfills.
Over the course of the weekend with all the rain that we had the section of asphalt between the bridge on 150 and the bridge over Sulfur Springs Road on 459 just came all to pieces.
All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too. And what else remains if not the piece of love that once existed in this great il or in this dream called life.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life.
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
Gaining more experience on asphalt is one of Chris's development objectives this year. The challenging stages in Ireland will be great practice for him. He needs all the asphalt experience he can get but, in particular, coming from sunny Australia, he hasn't had many chances to drive in the wet - that shouldn't be a problem in Ireland.
We played on a carpet floor for many years ... (that) was green and half an inch thick right over asphalt. It's a strange place to play basketball. You couldn't even hear the ball bounce. Teams would freak out.
It is the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
In 1960, ... the Cape looked like an oil field, with towering structures, dirt, and asphalt roads newly carved out of the palmetto scrub. The alligators were reluctantly surrendering to the onslaught of newly arrived civilization. If you didn't have a good sense of direction, you were in trouble.
The advantages of heavy crude processing and upgrade of the bottoms via high-valued asphalt sales fit our core strategy and our business model well.
There's some asphalt damage in the parking lot, a couple other things in the kitchen that need attention and some weather stripping -- should be cleared up in a few days. I'm anxious for them to move in and I want them to be happy.
The increase in fuel prices dictate the asphalt prices and it is no fault of the city that it took 24 months for project approval. This is nice to have so we don't have to dip into the city budget. The city's portion of the project will remain at 300,000.
Asphalt prices were expensive in (the bid). It is a concern that we are facing. It's a very real concern.