Lava Quotes - page 2

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. (Ray Bradbury)
The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft... in others it is medium... in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds:. View quote
Vitruvius
Does rocks float on lava? View quote
Gavin Free
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. View quote
Lord Byron
IF YOU ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone. View quote
Jack Handey
There's no use trying to kid myself with cheery little uplifting cliches. I've been forced right up against the underlying truth of things. What a dark and cruel place the world is, for all its beauty, for all its wonder! We have miracles around us on every side-a spiderweb is a miracle, Lora!-but we also have violence, insanity, terrible disease, sudden death. The same Nature that brings us the mountains and the rivers and the green glistening meadows brings us the hurricane, the earthquake, the flood of red-hot lava rolling toward the city. View quote
Robert Silverberg