Volcanoes Quotes

Most volcanologists die in bed.

— Katia and Maurice Krafft

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

— Agnes Smedley

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

— Edmund Burke

There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

— Werner Herzog

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

— Katia and Maurice Krafft

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Empedocles

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

— George Sand

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

— Werner Herzog

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

— Karl Kraus

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

— Andrea Gibson

She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.

— Elvis Presley

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms…

— Dave Barry

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have…

— Anonymous

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are…

— Gustav Stresemann

When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go…

— Alan Stern

I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a…

— Rick Sanchez

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and…

— Edward Abbey

The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's virtually no erosion there. So…

— David Grinspoon

Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed…

— John Steinbeck

“Okay, well, how about this for an idea. How about we throw you screaming from a helicopter into the fucking waiting maw…

— T.J. Kirk

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

— Amos Oz

All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent…

— John Muir

When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense…

— Werner Herzog

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his…

— John Gardner

There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could…

— Werner Herzog

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

In the communist revolution in North Korea, when they threw out the Japanese occupiers, they claimed the power in the dynamic of…

— Werner Herzog

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store…

— Anonymous

“So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would…

— Dick Thompson

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the…

— Corey Ford

Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as…

— Tom Robbins

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all…

— Christine Feehan

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

— Emily Dickinson

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

— Charles Caleb Colton