logo

Quotes About Eden

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The effects of the mescalin were already on the decline: but the flowers in the gardens still trembled on the brink of being supernatural, the pepper trees and carobs along the side streets still manifestly belonged to some sacred grove. Eden alternated with Dodona. Yggdrasil with the mystic Rose.
~ Aldous Huxley
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
~ Jerry Falwell
Let's smuggle cider into the garden of Eden? Adam's apples are shite. Eve's cool. She calls it a SCAM. Smuggling Cocaine, Alcohol and Marijuana. But is the snake a grass?
~ Robert Sabbag
Walking in the garden that had been Eden, Mother Nature met Father God and he doom.
~ Rosalind Miles
He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.
~ Russell Banks
Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla.
~ Eden Robinson
Hey, what's your wi-fi password?" "Ticats suck, Argos rule," Jared said. "One word, no caps, no spaces.
~ Eden Robinson
Heavens, how I detest change! I sometimes think that change, and change alone, is the source of all misery. No doubt Eden was quite static and lethargic.
~ Edmund Crispin
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.
~ Anonymous
So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
~ Anonymous
The tree of life also in the midst of the garden.
~ Anonymous
?????????, parádeisos, paradise: it means garden.
~ Anthony Doerr
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'
~ Terry Pratchett
I'm mixed on figs. The fleshy quality feels spooky. In Italian, il fico, fig, has a slangy turn into la fica, meaning vulva. Possibly because of the famous fig leaf exodus from Eden, it seems like the most ancient of fruits. Oddest, too—the fig flower is inside the fruit. To pull one open is to look into a complex, primitive, infinitely sophisticated life cycle tableau.
~ Frances Mayes
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way
~ Francine Rivers
Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.
~ Francine Rivers
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.
~ Francine Rivers
Cómo es posible que un planeta pueda convertirse en un Edén sin dinero? —¿De qué os sirve el dinero si no os procura los servicios que necesitáis? —preguntó a su vez Kynes.
~ Frank Herbert
If there is no sacred order, then the original promise of the serpent in the Garden of Eden—"[Y]e shall be as gods"—is the foundational principle of the new culture.
~ Rod Dreher
The land is like the garden of Eden before them," wrote the author of Joel, "but after them a desolate wilderness.
~ Roderick Nash
There at Eden it would seem that these cherubim are hostile to humans in that they guard the way, or block access to, the tree of life. On the contrary, they are exhibiting grace, for if Adam were to eat from that tree, he would have been cursed to live in an aging body forever. It was grace that set the cherubim there for us.
~ Ron Phillips
GURGE  (GURGE)   n.s.[gurges, Latin.]Whirlpool; gulf. Marching from Eden he shall findThe plain, wherein a black bituminous gurgeBoils out from under ground.Milton'sParadise Lost,b. xii.
~ Samuel Johnson
For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge