Edgeware Quotes & Sayings

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has. — Markus Zusak

Biological warfare (BW) and chemical warfare (CW) research was run out of Edgeware Arsenal but also involved testing in many other locations including Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. As in the radiation experiments described in an earlier chapter, BW/CW research involved releasing bacteria, fungi and viruses into general population areas. The bacterium Serratia marascens was released in many locations including New York (June 7-10, 1966), San Francisco (September, 1950), and Pennsylvania State Highway #16 westward for one mile from Benchmark #193 (January 7, 1955). Other infectious agents released into civilian populations included Aspergillus fumigatus and Bacillus globigii. — Colin A. Ross

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed. — Robert A. Heinlein

Fine words dresse ill deedes. — George Herbert

It's such a gift when another person knows you through and through, brings out your best, and turns a blind eye to your worst. — Kathy Kalina

He pulled away. He said, And now we never speak of it again. — Maggie Stiefvater

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community. — Jimmy Carter

At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the walker enjoys comparative freedom. But possibly the day will come when it will be partitioned off into so-called pleasure-grounds, in which a few will take a narrow and exclusive pleasure only, - when fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps and other engines invented to confine men to the public road, and walking over the surface of God's earth shall be construed to mean trespassing on some gentleman's grounds. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come. — Henry David Thoreau

Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair. — N. T. Wright

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause. — Horace

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus. — Derwin L. Gray