Quotes About Genesis

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small

The beginnings of all things are small.

It was, for a moment, not her who started out between the bars. It was something dredged up from the bottom of the sea. Black eyes swiveling in a gray head. Some primeval genus that viewed him — he knew this to his marrow — with hatred in its bowels.

The fear is mother of the event.

She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest.

She also was used to people who couldn't tell a story for anything, who thought the beginning went about as far back as Genesis, and that every tangential thought, every narrative cul de sac, must be explored en route.

I've only just begun.

I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

Una cosa sola (tra le molte) mi pare insopportabile all'artista: non sentirsi più all'inizio.

Faith is the substance that God used to create the universe, and He transported that faith with His words. God used His words as containers to transport His faith out there into the vast nothingness, into the darkness. He said, ''Light, be!" (Gen. 1:3.) And light was!

On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor.

The consummation of a revelation is always dependent upon its genesis.

The beginning is the half of every action.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

This whole book is composed of first pages.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Every journey begins with one step.

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

Like everyone else, when you start out you must begin from a position of being completely unknown. No option.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.