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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. (Quote by - James Cameron)

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)

Gross in physique, gargantuan in gourmandise, oceanic in liquid capacity, prodigal of purse, a fire hose of libido and a Niagara of comic invention, the man was excess personified and one of the great entertainers of the age. (Quote by - Brad Darrach)

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. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't live under Niagara. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

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

Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara. (Quote by - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay)

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. (Quote by - E. E. Cummings)

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. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Miss Farrell has a voice like some unparalleled phenomenon of nature. She is to singers what Niagara is to waterfalls. (Quote by - Alfred Frankenstein)

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls. (Quote by - Jack Kemp)

On the third Tuesday of every September, floodgates are opened in a tall building on the East River in New York and a Niagara of rhetoric gushes forth for three months. (Quote by - Anthony Parsons)

Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally--bidding the lip of man Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise. (Quote by - Lydia Huntley Sigourney)

Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of cataracts!" An angel who had been O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled, And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen. (Quote by - Maria Brooks)

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. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle)

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