“ If you're a creationist, you can look at it this way: When Eve offered Adam the apple, he stood up to accept it. ”
- Hugo A. Keim- Copy
- 3K
“ When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition.". ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. ”
- Bess Streeter Aldrich- Copy
- 2K
“ No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. ”
- Carol Gilligan- Copy
- 930
“ When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
- 826
“ Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 610
“ riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
- 2.9K
“ It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? ”
- Bram Stoker- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 2.1K
“ He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that… every day in their lives is Christmas Eve. ”
- Joe Garagiola- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
- 861
“ Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there. ”
- Amy Grant- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I long for the solitude of a sunset at sea, and the chill of the breeze coming in with the eve. For the motion of my boat, as she swings on her rode, and the beauty of the stars, in the evenings last glow. ”
- R.C. Gibbons- Copy
- 3K
“ What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar… ”
- Diane Frolov and Robin Green- Copy
- 925
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