#falls

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#across #blasted #built #creek #dam

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #character #crisis #faced #falls

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#australians #challenge #chance #day #eve

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls. ↗

— Rajiv Gandhi

#days #falls #great #india #people

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go. ↗

— Teri Garr

#anyone #before #charles #cripple #down

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ↗

— Romain Gary

#befalls #declaration #dignity #him #humor

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. ↗

— Che Guevara

#fall #falls #make #revolution #ripe

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#close #defense #domestic #economic #energy

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#danger #deliver #failures #human #human relationships

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#city #ever #falls #limits #post