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  • I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
  • All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

    John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.91
  • The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

    Eye   America   Nephilim  
    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.122, Library of America
  • Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

    Brother   Powerful   Air  
  • [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

    Fall   Blow   Average  
  • We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

  • I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

    Fall   God Love   Niagara  
    Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah
  • I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

    Rivers   Used   Niagara  
  • Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

    Dog   Pain   Book  
  • Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

    Giving   Voting   News  
    Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.69, Penguin
  • It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

  • How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

    Running   Uncles   Fall  
  • Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

  • When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

    Christian   Fall   People  
  • He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

    "Gore and Kemp Face Off in Vice Presidential Debate". "NBC Today Show", archives.nbclearn.com. October 10, 1996.
  • Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
  • It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

    Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin
  • The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

  • The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

    Nature   Fall   Whales  
    Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1765.
  • Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

    Travel   Nice   Fall  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin
  • I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.

    Fall   Golf   Blood  
  • No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

    Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

    Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.150, Courier Corporation
  • I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

    Fall   Rivers   People  
    "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.
  • Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

    Travel   Fall   Home  
  • Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.

    Fall   Rocks   Wind  
    Source: onpoint.wbur.org
  • War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

    War   Thunder   Niagara  
    Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.408
  • All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

    Real   Fall   Heaven  
    Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.108, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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