Eden Quotes

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

Work, Put, Rest

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness, Boring, Maybe

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Orson Welles

Fake, Old, Tree

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

Religion, Crazy, Said

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
Joni Mitchell

Time, Respect, Away

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

Peace, Nothing, Boring

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
Larry Hagman

Beautiful, Girl, Barbara

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.
Jane Seymour

Family, Time, Truth

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
Sherman Alexie

Young, Idea, Literature

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Jerry Falwell

Here, Since, Temptation

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

Love, Grow, Trees

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
Vicente Fox

Work, Garden, Apple

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

Since, Fall, Rose

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

Truth, Human, Old

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

Love, Energy, Calm

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

Leave, Wonder, Childhood

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

Future, Live, Lost

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

History, Creative, Read

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer

Creativity, Outside, Awaits

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

War, Far, Makes

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

Negative, Almost, Deal

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

Far, Space, Concerned

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