Quotes About Creation

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

There's nothing man ever dreams of that God hasn't already thought of!

If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.