Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. — Mark Twain
Adam was the first lucky man as he had no mother-in-law. — Jewish Proverbs
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married. — St. Jerome
You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian? — Richard Dawkins
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise. — Cesare Borgia
After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds! — Bettie Page
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. — E. R. Squibb
After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't." — Bill Cosby
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law. — Mark Twain
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. — Vicente Fox
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Timothy Leary
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. — Max Lucado
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. — Lester B. Pearson
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason. — Erich Fromm
Adam And Eve Apple Quotes
As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him. — Donna Woolfolk Cross
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. — Peter Kreeft
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves. — D. H. Lawrence
I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise. — Ronald Reagan
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple. — Stella Benson
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture. — Mary Pratt
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell
I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters. — J. D. Salinger
The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. — Jodi Picoult
The Adam And Eve Story Quotes
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. — Sarah Moore Grimke
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true. — Madeleine L'Engle
The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person. — Bruce Feiler
We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story. — Elie Wiesel
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable. — Frank Moore Cross
I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story. — Elie Wiesel
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic . — Andrew Lam
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all. — Donald Miller
Adam Quotes
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human. — Saadi Shirazi
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find. — Fulton J. Sheen
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. — Matthew Henry
Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon. — Benny Hinn
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God. — Bob Jones, Sr.
I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple. — Moe Howard
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams
Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it. — Alicia Keys
Garden Of Eden Quotes
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? — Chuck Palahniuk
And all this time when you could have been romping around the f*cking Garden of Eden f*cking hot girls and eating steaks and living a beautiful life you were worried about... — Duncan Trussell
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. — Donna J. Haraway
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden — D.T. Suzuki
Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too! — Bettie Page
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. — John Galt
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden. — Harold MacMillan
The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden. — Malcolm Muggeridge
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Creation Of Man Quotes
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected. — Francis of Assisi
Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe. — Elijah Muhammad
The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will. — Eliphas Levi
When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man. — Elijah Muhammad
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James Baldwin
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man. — Primo Levi
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest. — William Shakespeare
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty — Thomas Paine
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. — Clarence Darrow
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. — Dan Barker
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. — James Joyce
Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs. — Ken Ham
If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away. — Ken Ham
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about. — Agnes Repplier
I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen. — Rush Limbaugh
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. — Charles Lamb
If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything? — Daniel Tosh
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. — Jon Gries
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. — Norman Borlaug
Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together. — John Eldredge
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman. — Ouida
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. — Carol Gilligan
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. — Mark Twain
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. — Walter Lang
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. — Thomas Goodwin
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. — Bob Cousy
To get the full value of joy
You must have someone to divide it with.
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve
in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden
with her than inside it without her. — Mark Twain
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction. — Alvin Boyd Kuhn
The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex. — Carl Everett
St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents. — Blaise Pascal
I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have. — Max Lucado
God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil. — Mark Hart
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit. — Isaac Asimov
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave. — Ann Voskamp
The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns. — Tim LaHaye
The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition." — William Ralph Inge
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) — Billy Graham
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