Volcanoes Quotes

Volcanoes Quote of the day

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano.

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

Most volcanologists die in bed.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.