Niagara Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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 Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

John James Audubon

#4. The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.

Joan Lingard

#5. I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

Kim Alexis

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Yeah, that's her. Roly-poly little bitch. Fucked her in the ass the other day and, get this, she shit all over me. I'm talkin', this wasn't no little mess. This was Niagara fuckin' Falls pourin' outta her ass.

Madeline Sheehan

#9. Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#10. His tremendous struggles caused such a commotion that our position could only be compared to that of men shooting Niagara in a cylinder at night.

Frank T. Bullen

#11. Tourists hurried past them on the pedestrian-only street like chickens scampering to the feeder, cars scurrying through a tollgate, Niagara River rushing into the falls.

Dennis Vickers

#12. May 21: Marilyn reports to Fox for color and wardrobe tests for Niagara.

Carl Rollyson

#13. Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

Oscar Wilde

#14. 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

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

Robert Frost

#16. 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.

James Cameron

#17. It would be more impressive if it flowed the other way (Commenting on Niagara Falls)

Oscar Wilde

#18. I understood why Leo called the fountain Baby Niagara. Because once you see something big, you can't help seeing it in everything small.

Ally Condie

#19. Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

James Lovelock

#20. The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake was like something out of a Christmas movie. The trees were bare except for the occasional pine tree that stood out dark green against the white snow.

Nicki Edwards

#21. 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

#22. Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people's physiology and seems to be a reaction to tremendous nerves, fatigue, or self-consciousness. It is rarely a welcome occurrence to the giggler and can feel like going over Niagara Falls without a barrel

Linda Ronstadt

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

Arthur C. Clarke

#24. Fred Olmsted sat at the edge of the stagecoach seat, chattering to his father about their trip. How exciting to see the towns and forests of western New York! Suddenly, Fred stopped talking. That roar in the distance could only be one thing. Niagara Falls!

Julie Dunlap

#25. And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.

Joe Bruno

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

Billy Sunday

#27. Do you know there are at least seven ways to view Niagara Falls ... one of the natural wonders of the world?

Joan Lingard

#28. War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

Wendell Phillips

#29. The cataract of grief is a longer drop than Niagara, and I guess I've not reached the river of acceptance at the bottom.

Dean Koontz

#30. 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

#31. He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

Jack Kemp

#32. I'll remind her of how fat her arms looked in that slutty dress she wore at senior prom. That always makes her cry. Like goddamned Niagara falls.

Meg Cabot

#33. 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

#34. Yeah, thanks, man. That'll be like catching Niagara fucking Falls with a fly net.

Cristin Harber

#35. It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

Nik Wallenda

#36. Niagara Falls Power Company chose to go with AC current to feed the industry of Buffalo, which became briefly known as the electric city of the future.

A.A. Gill

#37. Sweetheart, you've just given me a hard on the size of Niagara Falls, so I think it's safe to say I'm not turned off, but I do think this will change how we spend your ten nights if you choose to come to me.

Michelle Hughes

#38. You cannot shoot your way a little bit into a war any more than you can go a little bit over Niagara Falls.

Thomas A. Bailey

#39. 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

#40. I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be bigger.

Meryl Davis

#41. I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower on a summer night. A tidal wave crashing onto the breakers. Falling over the edge of Niagara Falls in an inner tube. Because I have fallen, irreparably for Gavin Murphy

Lex Martin

#42. I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

Nik Wallenda

#43. Niagara Falls is the hanging tongue on the face of the earth, drooling endlessly over its own beauty.

Vinita Kinra

#44. 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

#45. Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Thomas Carlyle

#49. Bad poetry is almost always bad because it attempts to claim for itself the real power of whatever it describes in ten lines: a sky full of stars, first love, or Niagara Falls.

Annie Dillard

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Men see God in the ripple, but not in miles of still water. Of all the two thousand miles that the St. Lawrence flows, pilgrims go only to Niagara.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice.

Nicole Anderson

#54. One cannot go over Niagara Falls in a barrel only slightly.

A.C. Davis

#55. No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure was going to give him the joys or the terrors that must accompany pregnancy- that must, for teen girls, make sex a walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

Chris Bohjalian

#56. 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

#57. I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

Brennan Manning

#58. 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

#59. Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.

Blake Western

#60. Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Nicholas Kristof