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Quotes About Creation

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin what what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.
~ Mark Twain
If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
~ Mark Twain
it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion. 
~ Mark Twain
Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.
~ Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
~ Mark Twain
On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years. Since there was so much time to spare that nineteen years of it could be devoted to the construction of a mere towhead, where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days?
~ Mark Twain
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.
~ Mark Twain
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
~ Mark Twain
Ain't you my chile? En does you know anything dat a mother won't do for her chile? Day ain't nothin' a white mother won't do for her chile. Who made 'em so? De Lord done it. En who made de niggers? De Lord made 'em. In de inside, mothers is all de same. De good lord he made 'em so.
~ Mark Twain
God made the Sea of Galilee and its surroundings as they are. Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work?
~ Mark Twain
I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey
~ Mark Twain
To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the what is next of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
~ Mark Twain
Damn these human beings! If I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
~ Mark Twain
You will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me...
~ Mark Twain
builded by the water-drip from a stalactite
~ Mark Twain
The Character of Man Concerning Man—he is too large a subject to be treated as a whole; so I will merely discuss a detail or two of him at this time. I desire to contemplate him from this point of view—this premiss: that he was not made for any useful purpose, for the reason that he hasn't served any; that he was most likely not even made intentionally; and that his working himself up out of the oyster bed to his present position was probably
~ Mark Twain
Qu'est-ce qu'un Juif lépreux qui, né d'une catin et d'un soldat, dans le plus chétif coin de l'univers, ose se faire passer pour l'organe de celui qui, dit-on, a créé le monde
~ Mark Twain
We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
~ Mark Twain
Bóg stworzyÅ' czÅ'owieka, poniewa? rozczarowaÅ' siÄ™ maÅ'pÄ…. Z dalszych eksperymentów zrezygnowaÅ'.
~ Mark Twain
It all began with Adam. He was the first man to tell a joke--or a lie. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. - Notebook, 1867
~ Mark Twain
Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?
~ Mark Twain
Así, pues, le dije: —Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no importa: Dios todopoderoso nos ha creado a todos y a unos los ha dejado ciegos mientras que a otros les ha dado los ojos para verlo todo. Me parece que yo no figuro entre estos últimos; pero sin duda está bien así, puesto que es Dios quien lo ha querido.
~ Mark Twain
feel as the good God feels when He looks out on His fleets of constellations ploughing the awful deeps of space and reflects with satisfaction that they are His—all His.
~ Mark Twain
we made a few bushels of first-rate blasting powder
~ Mark Twain