Top 100 Quotes About Eden
#1. Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
Edward Carpenter
#2. Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#3. The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.
Donna J. Haraway
#4. Our souls are wired for what we will never enjoy until Eden is restored in the new heaven and earth. We are built with a distant memory of Eden.8
Gary L. Thomas
#5. 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
#6. America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
Mitch Leigh
#8. 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
#9. Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.
Heather Gudenkauf
#10. In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.
Richard Baxter
#11. Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.
Niall Ferguson
#12. Avian was home and made me feel secure and right. Everything felt okay when I was with Avian. But at the same time, he was still so much older than I was. And he would be tied to Eden in such a permanent way.
Keary Taylor
#13. E need more love than we deserve ... has God not indeed shown us his greatest love precisely when we deserved it least from the tree of Eden to the tree of Calvary and beyond?
Joseph Langford
#14. Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.
Jerry Bridges
#15. I have to rub my eyes and read the captions again. They're still there. The Elector has freed Eden.
Marie Lu
#16. There are no mistakes, Eden, just different outcomes to our flawed expectations.
Rachel Higginson
#17. The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron
and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring
embody the American dream of Eden.
Lewis H. Lapham
#18. The person my heartache would spit out wouldn't be Ellie Watt and she wouldn't be Eden White. I didn't know her name, but I knew she wouldn't possess a heart.
I was fucking scared of her.
Karina Halle
#20. The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
Cyril Connolly
#21. There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
Bob Dylan
#22. To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#23. I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!
Lyn Gardner
#24. The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.
Paul P. Enns
#25. The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer
#26. The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Anonymous
#27. Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
Annie Dillard
#28. Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.
Kim Harrison
#29. This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
Dean Koontz
#31. Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.
Francine Rivers
#32. As in Eden there took place the first espousals of man and woman, so, in her, there took place the first espousals of God and man, eternity and time, omnipotence and bonds. In
Fulton J. Sheen
#33. Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
Thomas Sowell
#34. The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
Gerald Massey
#35. I never considered myself an idiot until this very moment,' I said, staring wide-eyed at Eden as we drifted towards it.
'Really?' said Millie, blinking heavily. 'But you've done so many idiotic things already.
Catherine Doyle
#36. Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I've had no Eden, let alone been driven out." "It's the best reason I ever heard for making a garden," Samuel exclaimed. He chuckled.
John Steinbeck
#37. We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
Henry Martin
#38. Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Jerry Falwell
#39. We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise. Their mental Eden is as seductive as their job is repugnant.
Amelie Nothomb
#41. But the sun will rise the day after tomorrow
A millennium without us silences our last echo
To tiny fragments even our plastics are reduced
In Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed
A.A. Patawaran
#43. He was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden.
He did not hide the obstacles from himself.
Victor Hugo
#45. The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#46. Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable
Lance Morrow
#47. The world beyond the hidden garden vanished from her awareness. There was only this place, this patch of Eden, sunny and quiet and blazing with unearthly color. The mixed scents of lavender and warm male skin were all around her... too delicious... too compelling...
Lisa Kleypas
#48. UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell
Nikki Sixx
#49. Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
Amy Waldman
#50. It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#51. In Valiente's world," Eden wrote,"Love is never consummated, but remains a figment of the hero's own imagination. In preferring dreams to reality, the hero dooms himself. He would rather risk a physical death than the death of his beloved illusion.
Ava Zavora
#52. I call the spot Eden," he said. "Who could not wish to paint such a paradise?
Kate Breslin
#53. I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.
Max Lucado
#54. If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?
Daniel Tosh
#55. 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 G. Ingersoll
#56. A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#57. While appreciating the beauty around her, Eden considered the darkness that lay ahead.
Linda Lee Chaikin
#58. I don't know who lives there, but there must be a paradise of cleanliness and dust-free bourgeois existence behind that glass door, an Eden of order and painstaking devotion to little routines and chores that is touching.' Since
Hermann Hesse
#59. If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.
Dean Koontz
#60. A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
W. Somerset Maugham
#61. Let us express our gratitude to those people who make our journeys in life beautiful, easy, and interesting. They are the angels of Eden whom we often forget to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#62. If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.
Jon Gries
#63. In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1
Alan W. Watts
#64. Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts
Stephen King
#65. 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
#66. In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
Tom Robbins
#67. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden. - The Color of Grace
Tonia Triebwasser
#68. And still Eden was avoiding him like he was a Bieber fan at a Korn concert.
Samantha Young
#69. 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
#70. All of us hate to be caged, Mitch. For Hyde, and maybe Chastity, it's necessary. But for the rest of us, it's a choice." Eden stalked out, wondering which choice she was making.
Lauren Stewart
#71. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten
Leviak B. Kelly
#72. Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus
Samantha Young
#73. Sympathy covered Eden's face as she nodded.
Nora Roberts
#74. The new earth will be like Eden..the deserts will gush with water ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.
Paul P. Enns
#75. The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
#76. I looked as appropiate as a Moonie at a Baptist picnic, but I rode trough the land of the power tie and tightened sphincter to Eden Park.
Warren Moore
#77. It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.
Peter Redgrove
#78. Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, -
Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag, -
Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree, -
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Alfred Tennyson
#79. The freedom of the woods lingered in me here; I felt lighter. I hoped to be changed by it, allow this seeding independence to root in my childhood Eden's soil and grow until at last it was undeniable.
Aspen Matis
#80. Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how."
"What version of Gone with the Wind did you grow up watching?"
"There are a lot of liberties taken with Spanish subtitles.
Karina Halle
#81. You were made for me, Eden. Just as I was made for you. We fit. We just fit.
Maya Banks
#82. 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 G. Ingersoll
#83. We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain.
Shane Kuhn
#84. What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#85. Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
Fannie Hurst
#86. If I'm walking into heartbreak, that's my own choice, Eden.
Jasinda Wilder
#87. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#88. We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire
#89. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.
Karen Armstrong
#90. What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?
Countee Cullen
#91. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring
it was peace.
Milan Kundera
#92. Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.
Thomas King
#93. And as I walked, I believed myself to be an Adam setting foot in a new Eden, sinless and wild-eyed, my sinews still stiff with creation.
Lauren Groff
#94. Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#95. Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden
Anne Rice
#96. 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
#97. I hope I'm always a part of you, Eden. You'll forever be a part of me. A world without you in it is a song without the music. You need both to make it whole.
Karina Halle
#98. The birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder of what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden.
Felix Wantang
#99. The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden?
Ted Dekker
#100. It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
