Eden famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.
-- A. C. Dixon -
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
-- Amy Waldman -
Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.
-- Anthony Eden -
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
-- Arthur Miller -
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven
-- Augustine Birrell -
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.
-- Barry Lopez -
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.
-- Bernard Lazare -
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 -
After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!
-- Bettie Page -
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.
-- Brigham Young -
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
-- C.P. Snow -
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 -
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise
-- Cesare Borgia -
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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 -
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 -
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
-- Dennis Potter -
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.
-- Diane Arbus -
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
-- Emily Dickinson -
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
-- Fannie Hurst -
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
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 -
Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
-- Francine Rivers -
Eden Hazard is a great player. He has magic
-- Frank Lampard -
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher -
I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.
-- Gayle King -
The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
-- Gerald Massey -
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.
-- Harold MacMillan -
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 -
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.
-- Helen H. Gardener -
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 -
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 -
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 -
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
-- Jerry Falwell -
Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.
-- Joan Collins -
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.
-- Joanne Fluke -
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.
-- John Carroll -
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 -
The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.
-- John Keble -
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse
-- John Milton -
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
-- John Milton -
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
-- John Milton -
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.
-- John Steinbeck -
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 -
One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.
-- Jonathan Raban -
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too....
-- Joyce Cary -
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
-- Julio Cortazar -
God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.
-- Kirk Cameron -
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 -
Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
-- Larry Hagman -
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 -
June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.
-- Marie Lu -
When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.
-- Marie Lu -
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 -
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.
-- Matthew Simpson -
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 -
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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 -
If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.
-- Paul Davies -
Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie -
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
-- Pico Iyer -
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 -
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
-- Robert Browning -
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
-- Robert Frost -
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
-- Timothy Leary -
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
-- Vicente Fox -
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
-- Wilfred Burchett -
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
-- William Cowper -
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
-- William Least Heat-Moon -
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
-- Wyndham Lewis -
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
-- Catharine Sedgwick -
The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.
-- Justine Kurland -
It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.
-- Larkin Grimm -
The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.
-- Paul P. Enns -
The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.
-- Paul P. Enns -
It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.
-- Maude Royden -
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .
-- Andrew Lam -
The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.
-- Peter Cook -
The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.
-- Edwin Muir -
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 -
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
-- I. L. Peretz -
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
