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Quotes About Eve

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
~ F. H. Bradley
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
~ Terri Guillemets
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
say the rest, not when his brother was so white and stiff. "And?" "And they realized the caller meant a bomb in the theater. The police were there within minutes, five, ten at the most. They heard it go off." Alexander pressed his lips together. "Where?" "In her office. Alexander," he continued quickly, "she wouldn't have been in there. Eve's too smart for that.
~ Nora Roberts
that I've been requisitioned a coffeemaker." Eve
~ Nora Roberts
I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
~ Grazia Deledda
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk! [A sound which represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.]
~ James Joyce
Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!
~ James Joyce
Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset.
~ James Joyce
She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.
~ James Joyce
God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?
~ Yves Montand
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.
~ Alexander Pope
The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.
~ Thomas Paine
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
~ Mary Astell
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.' 'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
~ Oscar Wilde
and Dad's to celebrate Christmas Eve. It was going to be a happy time—her and Martin's first Christmas together. "No! No! No!
~ Wanda E. Brunstetter
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What happened?" said Clover, wetting a cloth in the basin, and dabbing Azalea's face. "She had a sort of fit," said the King. "I think her underthings may be laced too tightly." All the girls, including Azalea, blushed brilliantly. " Sir ," said Eve. "You're not suppose to know about the U word!" "Am I not? Forgive me.
~ Heather Dixon
You once said you had studied at the university," said Eve shyly. "What did you stufy, please?" Azalea blushed. It was all right for the girls to interrogate normal gentlemen, but this was the one she wanted to keep. "Ah," said Mr. Bradford, coloring as well. "Politics, actually. Some philosophy, and sciences. But...mostly politics, I'm afraid.
~ Heather Dixon
The kitchen island, like the one in the sting house, was absolutely enormous, a second kitchen unto itself. There was no room for one like that in Eve's kitchen and she felt a pang of island envy.
~ Lee Goldberg
The sun was setting, giving the smog a sickly glow that made the landscape look to Eve like an alien world populated by creatures that breathed radiant vomit.
~ Lee Goldberg