Adam Quote by Emilia Lanier

“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come…

— Alexander Pushkin

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was…

— C. S. Lewis

“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the curse. It’s…

— Fay Weldon

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the…

— Honore de Balzac

Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise…

— Emilia Lanier

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for…

— Matthew Pearl

“Finally, someone had seen him. And what had he done? Let her get away. Undermined by his disgusting human anatomy. It had just been…

— Karen Marie Moning

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others…

— Paul Bley

“Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd.”

— Heidi Cullinan

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X