--- title: "8 Beginning Genesis Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 8 Beginning Genesis quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Beginning Genesis sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/418/milan-kundera-120_certainty_the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-t_225497.jpg" --- > [The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-that-god-created-man-in-order/) [Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/418/milan-kundera-120_certainty_the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-t_225497.jpg) > [The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/northrop-frye/the-entire-bible-viewed-as-a-divine-comedy-is-contained-within-a-u/) [Northrop Frye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/northrop-frye/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/northrop-frye-3483_bible_the-entire-bible-viewed-as-a-divine-come_1290219.png) > [The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-that-god-created-man-in-order-2/) [Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/milan-kundera-120_animals_the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-t_1778318.jpg) > [I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-messud/i-remember-going-to-a-son-s-friend-s-bar-mitzvah-and-the-text-that-he/) [Claire Messud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-messud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77b/claire-messud-1372_bar-mitzvah_i-remember-going-to-a-son-s-friend-s-bar_2052267.png) > [“The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and foul and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-that-god-created-man-in-order-3/) [Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/milan-kundera-120_milky-way_the-very-beginning-of-genesis-tells-us-t_2071744.jpg) > [This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michio-kaku/this-is-a-huge-step-toward-unraveling-genesis-chapter-1-verse-1-what/) [Michio Kaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michio-kaku/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bc/michio-kaku-907_beginning_this-is-a-huge-step-toward-unraveling-ge_2123202.png) > [It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ham/it-s-time-for-a-new-reformation-in-the-church-to-call-the-church-back/) [Ken Ham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/ken-ham-2712_authority_it-s-time-for-a-new-reformation-in-the-c_2747751.png) > [Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/sir-guy-campbell-s-classic-account-of-the-formation-of-the-links/) [Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/433/alistair-cooke-9876_accounts_sir-guy-campbell-s-classic-account-of-th_3052377.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beginning-genesis/#itemlist", "name": "Beginning Genesis Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. 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