Garden Of Eden Quotes - Page 2

• Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Flower, Simple, Garden

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• That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Dna, Years

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Brother, Flower, Princess

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• Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spring, Roots, Age

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Garden, Eden

  W. Somerset Maugham (2002). “The Trembling of a Leaf”, p.84, Dixon Price Pub

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• After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

  Bettie Page

  Garden, Eden, Naked

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Future, Past

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts!

  David Berg

  Jesus, Kings, Heart

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• Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Garden, Eden, Desire

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Eden, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!

  Bettie Page

  Garden, Eden, Naked

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 17, 2012

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• Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

  John Galt

  Men, Garden, Eden

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• This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Heart, Eden

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• We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Block, Believe, Mean

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.176

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• Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Brother, Men

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Basketball, Girl, Hate

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• If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

  Helen Dunmore

  Life, Garden, Eden

  Helen Dunmore (1988). “The Raw Garden”, Dufour Editions

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• One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.

  Kate Sanborn

  Dog, Garden, Eden

  Kate Sanborn (1916). “Educated dogs of to-day”

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• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

  Eric Weiner

  Real, Biblical, Garden

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• She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.484, Macmillan

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• I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Crazy, Believe, Garden

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Garden, Names

  Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, M.D. (2006). “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour”, p.9, Crown Archetype

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• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

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• When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

  Rudy Rucker

  Garden, Thinking, Smartphones

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