I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I…

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

— Fisher Ames

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human…

— Charles Lindbergh

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some…

— Amos Oz

For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge number…

— Suw Charman-Anderson

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Anonymous

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Katia and Maurice Krafft

Most volcanologists die in bed.

— Katia and Maurice Krafft

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

— David O. Selznick

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

— Anonymous

I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it.…

— Helen Merrill

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…

— Isaac Asimov

“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate…

— Anonymous