Adam Quote by Leonard Sweet

Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep While from him was taken a wife to keep. Adam poor father of creations best Your…

— Anonymous

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

— Mark Twain

There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as…

— Christine de Pizan

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to…

— David Lodge

“Because God took one look at Adam and said, 'Wow. This guy's going to need all the help he can get.' And here we…

— Nancy Mehl

“Even in sleep, he was waiting, a little tense like everyone waiting within reach of a telephone, for it to ring. And still, even…

— William Gaddis

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

— Karen Kingsbury

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his…

— Jim Elliot

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

— Mark Twain

“Adam was snoring vigorously, Luke with dignity and serenity, the servants like a full orchestra..”

— Thomas B. Costain

“When God wants people to stay asleep, they stay asleep.”

— Anonymous

“It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.”

— Peter Manseau