(280 quotes found)
“I am not a man of politics, but a man of many ideas worth putting forth.”
Jacob K. Adams
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
Mark Twain
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
“[Before opening an envelope for best supporting actress] I feel like Adam when he said to Eve, `Back up, I don't know how big this gets.”
Robin Williams
“Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething”
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“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
“Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes”
Christine Anderson
