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Quotes About Eve

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
~ Anonymous
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
~ Jakob Bohme
Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.
~ Frank Herbert
Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.
~ Frank Herbert
was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece.
~ Sam Torode
Remember—Adam was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece.
~ Sam Torode
Show me a man and a woman in love, and I'll show you Adam and Eve.
~ Sam Torode
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within ; And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulse's beat ; You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light, Like the fair light of Dawn, or summer Eve On rippling Stream, or cloud-reflecting Lake. And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It was made clear to me that I wasn't supposed to trouble the moody Creator with any pesky questions about the eccentricities of His cosmic system....Thus my idea of heaven was that I got to spend eternity sitting at the feet of God, grilling Him. Let me get this straight, I'd say, by way of introduction. It's your position that every person born has to suffer because Eve couldn't resist a healthy between-meals snack?
~ Sarah Vowell
The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.
~ Sarah Vowell
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
~ William Rounseville Alger
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
~ Alexandre Dumas
As the "no" of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
~ Richard Armour
All ladies will be glad to learn that there is a tradition, Manichean, it is true, and anathematized by St. Clement, which nevertheless contains a large element of truth; it is to this effect, that Adam, when made, was like a beast, coarse, rude, and inanimate, but that from Eve he received his upright position, his polish, and his spirituality.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.
~ Margaret Atwood
Some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.
~ Margaret Atwood
the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.
~ Margaret Atwood
Then she lent me her red flannel petticoat until I should get one of my own, and showed me how to fold and pin the cloths, and said hat some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.
~ Margaret Atwood
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.
~ Margaret Atwood
Forbidden things are open to the imagination. That was why Eve ate the Apple of Knowledge, said Aunt Vidala: too much imagination. So it was better not to know some things. Otherwise your petals would get scattered.
~ Margaret Atwood
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
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
~ Ogden Nash
Dr. Eve came into the room like a roll of distant thunder, just enough to send a chill of warning down the spine, with the knowledge of a storm to come.
~ Anne Perry