Adam Quote by Thomas Watson

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

“As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem…

— Susanna Clarke

Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the…

— Alexander Pope

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

“The second Adam since the fall His germinal Corruption held the seed Of that congenital heresy that men fail According to their creed. Craftsman…

— Derek Walcott

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

— John Henry Newman

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a…

— James Clavell

God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

— Leonard Sweet

So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing…

— J. G. Ballard

Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over…

— Anonymous

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when…

— Rudyard Kipling