quotations about Adam & Eve
Let's go down to the apple tree
Naive as Adam and Eve
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Let's go down to the apple tree
Fighting against gravity
NINA NESBITT
"The Apple Tree", Peroxide
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived from the very God who bade them be not conscious of it.
D.H. LAWRENCE
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
God did not "saw" Adam asunder, but split him in two, and made Eve out of one half.
S.C. MAIAN
The Book of Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
MARK TWAIN
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
We're simple and innocent again, like Adam and Eve. None of those complications about good and evil: Everything is very simple, childishly simple--Paradise!
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
We
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
JOHNNY RICH
The Human Script
When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh, what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not Adam-ant!
THOMAS HOOD
A Reflection
Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and women. One couple has been the battleground for human relationships and sexual identity. That couple is Adam and Eve.
BRUCE FEILER
The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve
If we sink into the suffering that's right for us,
Our dreams will have all that Adam and Eve wept for.
ROBERT BLY
"Shabistari and The Secret Garden"
Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.
NAN ROBERTSON
New York Times, November 28, 1957
All the world was Adam once, with Eve by his side.
JEAN INGELOW
Like a Laverock in the Lift
Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?
MILTON BERLE
attributed, Humor from the Net
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
BIBLE
Genesis 4:1-2
Adam, whiles he spake not, had paradise at will.
WILLIAM LANGLAND
Piers Plowman
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BIBLE
Genesis 1:27
'Tis Lilith ... Adam's first wife is she.
Beware the lure within her lovely tresses.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual? Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than "barking mad".
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Root of All Evil?
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Family Stories and Myths
It all began with Adam. He was the first man to tell a joke -- or a lie. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. 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
Notebook