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Quotes About Eve

As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.
~ Nadeem Aslam
We don't know what to do about Eve. She hasn't called and isn't here." Janie could not worry about Eve, who would do the best she could.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
The whole human race, beginning with Eve, comes from Adam's wounded side. A second race--a new redeemed humanity--comes from Jesus' wounded side. Jesus is the second Adam. Even before there is despair, God foreshadows hope. The creation of the woman is a sacred, holy moment.
~ Carolyn Custis James
I love 'O Holy Night.' On Christmas Eve, there's a service at the church where I grew up, and at midnight, we would always sing, 'O Holy Night' with candles.
~ Rachel Boston
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant!
~ Thomas Hood
Consider," replies the Geomancer, "— Adam and Eve ate fruit from a Tree, and were enlighten'd. The Buddha sat beneath a Tree, and he was enlighten'd. Newton, also sitting beneath a Tree, was hit by a falling Apple,— and he was enlighten'd. A quick overview would suggest that Trees produce Enlightenment. Trees are not the Problem. The Forest is not an Agent of Darkness. But it may be your Visto is.
~ Thomas Pynchon
En el mito hebreo de Adán y Eva, el pecado que cometieron es el de adquirir conocimiento (al comer el fruto del árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal: es decir el conocimiento de todo) y por ello fueron expulsados del Edén y, según los teólogos cristianos, infectaron a toda la Humanidad con el «pecado original».
~ Isaac Asimov
Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose; Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.
~ Anonymous
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
~ Thomas Hood
The year's in the wane; There is nothing adoring; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
~ Thomas Hood
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
~ Henry David Thoreau
practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.
~ Susan Howatch
My thoughts are wing'd with hopes, My hopes with love.Thoughts, hopes and love return to me no more, Until Cynthia shine as she hath done before.
~ Eve Edwards
It is odd enough that the kind of labor which falls to the lot of women is just that which chiefly distinguishes artificial life—the life of degenerated mortals—from the life of Paradise. Eve had no dinner-pot, and no clothes to mend, and no washing-day.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was nothing really, just a passing shadow. And Eve had lived long enough to know that it was foolish to worry about a shadow, everybody had one, it was just the shape your body made when the sun came out.
~ Tom Perrotta
Time, in his view, was a short, sloppy path from Eve's crayon box to the Messiah's fire box.
~ Tom Robbins
Adam first, Eve next, and also, confused about her role, the first outlaw?
~ Toni Morrison
The mother of all living.
~ Bible
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.
~ Bible
When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
~ John Ball
Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize. I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.
~ J.D. Robb
Vending Machine: This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day. Eve: Up yours.
~ J.D. Robb
Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.
~ J.D. Robb
How white is an Irishman's ass? Eve wondered out loud. You should know, darling.
~ J.D. Robb