Quotes About Volcano

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.

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain.

The largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars, is about 300,000 square kilometers in area and about 22 kilometers (14 miles) tall.

The largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars, covers an area as big as Arizona or Italy. It's so tall that if you tried to fly over it during a normal cross-country plane flight, you'd crash into it halfway up the slope.

Delicious was not a term applicable to anything below the crust of that volcano, whose heady vapors numbed his ravished senses.

Um," Starflight said as a horrifying thought struck him. "There's no chance this volcano is about to erupt, is there?

I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO," Glory roared. "Too late," Tsunami said. "Since that's kind of already happened. The volcano part, I mean. He's a pile of ashes now.

I hatched on an island of smoke and fire, under a volcano that breathed death all day and hid the stars and the three moons at night.

he'd died when the volcano erupted.

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.

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

Mr. Tiny nodded, then started forward. Enough of the chitchat, boys. I have work to do and I must be quick. Time is precious. A volcano's due to erupt on a small tropical island tomorrow. Everybody within a ten-mile radius will be roasted alive. I want to be there -- it sounds like great fun.

What passion today with Lee. She's a volcano. It was a totally fulfilling experience... Just as I dreamed it would be. (nodding slightly as he takes off his slippers) That's what it was. It was like living out a dream...a great dream.

Hm. How about jewelry? Do they make jewelry out of lava?" None of them had ever heard of that

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature. The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.

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

She asks him quietly in the dark to tell her about the mother of everything and he did not know of whom she was speaking. She asked the volcano and the volcano belched great streams of wet ash. She lay her head down with fatigue and found her head on a pillow of ink. Upon waking she stretched her arms around the glob and found her fingers weren't even close to touching.

The tigress didn't so much pace as pour herself, as if her very essence was molten, simmering, like the ooze from a volcano.

For friendship I have nobody else except the volcano.

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

It looks so peaceful," said Annie. "You can never be sure," said Jack. "Remember, Pompeii looked peaceful before the volcano went off.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.