Niagara – Quotes

It is with roses

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing. e. e. cummings

[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. … Read more

All systems have failed

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. Douglas Coupland

I could more easily

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

You might as well

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. Billy Sunday

Sometimes you come to

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 … Read more

The grand leap of

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

From a drop of

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. Arthur Conan Doyle

Getting information from the

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls. Arthur C. Clarke

Out of a human

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. … Read more