quotations about Adam & Eve
Adam and Eve are basically the forgotten patriarch and matriarch of the Bible. People either dismiss them as fairy tales--they're made up; we've moved on. Or people dump on them for ruining life for the rest of us. Adam and Eve (but mostly Eve) have been almost universally blamed for being selfish, lustful, disgraceful, and for single-handedly bringing shame, sin, and even death into the world.
BRUCE FEILER
The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve
Adam, whiles he spake not, had paradise at will.
WILLIAM LANGLAND
Piers Plowman
Adam chewed it over,
Thought it through--
It dawned on him
That outside Eden
They were eaters or eaten.
GREGORY ORR
"To Notice", River Inside the River
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Our grandsire Adam, ere of Eve possess'd,
Alone, and ev'n in Paradise unbless'd,
With mournful looks the blissful scene survey'd,
And wander'd in the solitary shade.
The Maker saw, took pity, and bestow'd
Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
ALEXANDER POPE
January and May
It began I believe when Adam found Eve he woke up and made her his wife
On that very first day she asked in dismay am I the first girl in your life
Wives don't like old girlfriends you know that's a fact of life
Wives don't like old girlfriends and girlfriends don't like old wives
CHET ATKINS & SUZY BOGGUSS
"Wives Don't Like Old Girlfriends"
When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh, what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not Adam-ant!
THOMAS HOOD
A Reflection
In the end, Eve decided to share with Adam--she could not bear the thought that she might after all die and that Adam would then wed "another Eve." And Adam? Adam, in Milton's conception, was not deceived. He understood at once that Eve had made a catastrophic mistake, but he immediately decided to share her fate. "How can I live without thee?"
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Let's go down to the apple tree
Naive as Adam and Eve
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Let's go down to the apple tree
Fighting against gravity
NINA NESBITT
"The Apple Tree", Peroxide
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
JOHNNY RICH
The Human Script
God did not "saw" Adam asunder, but split him in two, and made Eve out of one half.
S.C. MAIAN
The Book of Adam and Eve
All the world was Adam once, with Eve by his side.
JEAN INGELOW
Like a Laverock in the Lift
'Tis Lilith ... Adam's first wife is she.
Beware the lure within her lovely tresses.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and women. One couple has been the battleground for human relationships and sexual identity. That couple is Adam and Eve.
BRUCE FEILER
The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Family Stories and Myths
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BIBLE
Genesis 1:27
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.
MARK TWAIN
Notebook
Adam shot the apple into his vein
Adam said to Eve "Me Tarzan, you Jane"
TIMBUK 3
"Tarzan Was a Bluesman"
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
YIP HARBURG
Finian's Rainbow
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
DON MILLER
Blue Like Jazz