Apple And Eve Quotes

#1. Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

James Bridie

#2. [Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats.

Frances Wright

#3. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#4. I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

Robert Browning

#7. I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

Ronald Reagan

#8. Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#9. If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human.

J.D. Radke

#10. Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years," wrote Martin Luther. "Eve would say, 'You ate the apple,' and Adam would retort, 'You gave it to me.

Philip Yancey

#11. Original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted.Eve was afraid to follow her path without someone to help her and so she wanted to share what she was feeling.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

Helen Rowland

#13. We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Anthony Marais

#14. He's forbidden fruit, and I'm Eve standing in front of the apple

Jessica Clare

#15. Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

Paula Yates

#16. In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.

Richard Engel

#17. Anyway, I think I met him sometime before, in a different life or where I record. I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve, but my vision ends with the apple on the tree

Nicki Minaj

#18. Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Bertrand Russell

#19. 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

#20. The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

Andy Andrews

#21. When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.

Jennifer Crusie

#22. The two friends set out towards "Eve's Apple." It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them.

Victor Hugo

#23. 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

#24. You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

Evel Knievel

#25. Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!

Joseph Alleine

#26. ... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#27. My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.

Philip Dunne

#28. The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Terry Tempest Williams

#29. Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But ... she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

Libba Bray

#30. Hell. I was like the serpent shoving the apple at Eve. Or rather the banana...

Elle Kennedy

#31. Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.

L.P. Hartley

#32. I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

J.D. Salinger

#33. I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.

Toni Morrison

#34. At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a sapling, which became a seed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#35. In the Garden of Eden, Eve wore a fig leaf, not to cover her moist parts, but to draw Adam's gaze to what lay hidden in the undergrowth. Extending the metaphor, the snake symbolizes Adam's tongue, the apple the rosy, blood-engorged bundle of nerve endings pulsing within Eve's clitoris.

Chloe Thurlow

#36. Eve took a bite from the apple, chaos ensued... earth became hell as heaven retreated behind an impenetrable veil.

Hamilton Stone

#37. If Eve went door to door with her apple, not a soul in the Artemisia wouldn't have grabbed it, planted a kiss on old Mama Fig Leaf, and had that shiny red temptation turned into the applejack of good and evil within an hour.

Catherynne M Valente

#38. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

Lord Byron

#39. It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.

Dan Brown

#40. When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant!

Thomas Hood

#41. That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

D.H. Lawrence

#42. Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

Nan Robertson

#43. The apple ... came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Jodi Picoult

#44. What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

Eduardo Galeano

#45. Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

Maya Angelou

#46. Well, I think that's sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it's like that, the crow is like the serpent. He is giving the horse the awareness of choice. And with a full knowledge of choice comes a foreknowledge of death.

Peter Heller