(31 quotes found)
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.”
Diane Arbus
“Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.”
Joyce Cary
“The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.”
Sean O'Casey
“Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.”
Walter de La Mare
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, Th”
William Shakespeare
“Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry the burden of original sin.”
Lewis M. Branscomb
“The game was much closer than the score indicated. Kyle Eden played great in goal tonight, and I think that was a big difference.”
Joel Cormier
“Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.”
George Meredith
“There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden”
Henry Ward Beecher
