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Quotes About Eve

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.
~ Karen Armstrong
Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
~ Tony Evans
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
~ Wendell Phillips
As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.
~ Matthew Pearl
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
~ John Milton
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
~ Mark Twain
As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.
~ Sheri L. Dew
I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'
~ Christian Louboutin
Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.
~ Frank Moore Cross
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
~ Jay Leno
We are incapable: ever since Eve's crime, we've been born this way - outlaw failures, fucking and sinning with callous abandon as the planet we've been given withers around us.
~ Will Storr
I could see him rolling the question around in his head. I don't know about the God in the Bible, he signed. But I know you and Albert and Emmy, and now Sister Eve. And I think about Herman Volz and Emmy's mother. I know love. So if it's true, like Sister Eve says, that God is love, then I guess I believe.
~ William Kent Krueger
That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.
~ David Clement-Davies
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
~ Bob Jones, Sr.
After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."
~ Bill Cosby
We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!
~ Carlos Mencia
You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.
~ Paula Gunn Allen
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