Niagara Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Fall, Home

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• 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.

  Anna Brackett

  Freedom, Giving Up, Struggle

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• 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

  Disappointment, Fall, Taken

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Race, Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.366

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• 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.

  Juan Luis Guerra

  Hard Times, Expression, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wells

  In R. M. Milnes 'Notebook' (1838) p. 157

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• 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

  Fishing, Reason, Certain

  Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin

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• 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.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fall, Golf, Blood

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• I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

  Larry Gelbart

  Compassion, Information, Opinion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here will cross over and become capitalists and the capitalists will cross over and become laborers. Would to God they would shake hands while they are crossing, these from one side, and those from the other side.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Distance, Hands, Bridges

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Eye, America, Nephilim

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.122, Library of America

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• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Dog, Pain, Book

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• 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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Years, Waiting, Nineteen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fall, Glasses, Water

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Nature, Fall, Whales

  Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1765.

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

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Fall, Writing

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Nice, Fall

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• 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!

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, People

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• 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.

  Winona LaDuke

  Brother, Powerful, Air

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