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Definition of Volcano
Volcano

A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

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Volcano Quotations

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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.
Stephen Greenblatt

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.
Amos Oz

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
Phillip Noyce

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.
Jan de Bont

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

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.
Fisher Ames

Volcano Translations

volcano in Afrikaans is vulkaan
volcano in Dutch is vuurspuwende berg, vulkaan
volcano in French is volcan
volcano in German is Vulkan
volcano in Italian is vulano
volcano in Swedish is vulkan


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