Genesis Quotes
173 Genesis quotes by 143 unique authors
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The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
— Milan Kundera
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The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is…
— Alan Moore
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I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part…
— Frederick Buechner
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[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is…
— Wendell Berry
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If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed.…
— Lauren Oliver
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The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
— Milan Kundera
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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special…
— Richard Dawkins
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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
— Philip Yancey
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Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
— Thomas Paine
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In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and…
— Francis Collins
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In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other…
— Reza Aslan
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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine...…
— Rafael Cruz
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
— Athol Fugard
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When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people.…
— Ken Ham
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All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
— Eskinder Nega
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Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative…
— Roma Downey
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When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle…
— Rick Astley
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last…
— Natalie Martinez
Who Wrote These Genesis Quotes
143 authors contributed a total of 173 Genesis Quotes, led by these top contributors: