quotations about Adam & Eve
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.
CHARLES R. GERBER
Healing for a Bitter Heart
Eve, with her basket, was
Deep in the bells and the grass
Wading in bells and grass
Up to her knees,
Picking a dish of sweet
Berries and plums to eat,
Down in the bells and grass
Under the trees.
RALPH HODGSON
Eve
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
BIBLE
Genesis 2:20-25
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed -- or cursed -- with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
STELLA BENSON
I Pose
On the surface, the notion that Adam and Eve represent a love story is dubious. Most couples begin separate and come together; Adam and Eve begin together and move apart. Most couples start clothed and later get unclothed; Adam and Eve start naked and later get dressed.... But in other ways, Adam and Eve are the ur-love story. Love is fundamentally about looking forward, not backward. It's a committment to becoming, not merely being. It's an enlistment in togetherness, not aloneness. In that way, Adam and Eve are an ideal couple. They don't have a past, they have only a future. They have no ancestors, they have only descendants. Also, they don't have antecedents who've been in love before, so they can't mimic the experience of anyone else. They can't steal someone else's pickup lines or dance to anyone else's love songs. They must write their own story.
BRUCE FEILER
The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
PAUL VALÉRY
Tel Quel
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
Paradise Lost
Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
MARK TWAIN
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
He knew the seat of Paradise...
What Adam dreamt of when his bride
Came from her closet in his side...
If either of them had a naval.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Hudibras
Picture that orchard sprite,
Eve, with her body white,
Supple and smooth to her
Slim finger tips.
RALPH HODGSON
Eve
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to Elizabeth Shaw, March 20, 1791
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
SARAH GRIMKÉ
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman
That Adam, called "the happiest of men."
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
It's a story as old as Adam and Eve
I was making love
But you were making believe
KAY STARR
"You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love)"
Think how poor Mother Eve was brought
To being as God's afterthought.
ANNA WICKHAM
To Men
Tears were forbidden in Eden--
God didn't want the soil embittered.
Beyond the gates, they were free
To weep.
And weeping became
A form of freedom.
GREGORY ORR
"To Weep", River Inside the River
When Adam won Eve's hand,
He wouldn't stand
For teasin',
He didn't care about
Those apples out of season!
They say the Spring
Means just one thing
To little lovebirds;
We're not above birds,
Let's misbehave!
EARTHA KITT
"Let's Misbehave"
Let's give Adam & Eve another chance
To bring their children back together
Let's give Adam & Eve another chance
To show us how to love
GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP
"Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance"
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe,
And Adam caused from Paradise to go,
Wherein he was right merry and at ease.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Canterbury Tales
Have you ever considered what Adam and Eve were doing when they got into so much trouble? As I read the story, they were shopping. The forbidden fruit was not scattered throughout the garden, not in many places, not in multiple locations, but one place, one site, one location and one location only. Perhaps they just came upon it, "Oh, look, the forbidden fruit..." or, perhaps, they were looking for something, searching, shopping. Somewhere in their dissatisfaction they thought, "If only we had something more..."
DAVID W. JONES
Enough: And Other Magic Words to Transform Your Life