{"quotes":[{"text":"Adam \u0026 Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["adam-and-eve","dna","genetics","genome","humankind","mankind"],"id":9946,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.","author":"Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor","tags":["adam-and-eve","blame","men","women"],"id":18257,"author_id":"Nancy+Astor+the+Viscountess+Astor"},{"text":"For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin,An animal was murdered for garments made of skin.When figs of human effort produced religious strife,The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["adam-and-eve","bible-stories","creation","mercy","sin","the-fall-of-man"],"id":19991,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.","author":"Shirley Jump","tags":["adam-and-eve","creation","humor","man-woman-relationship","religion","romance","stupidity"],"id":21705,"author_id":"Shirley+Jump"},{"text":"The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adam-and-eve","beauty","blush","blushing","childhood","childlike","childlikeness","children","eden","innocence","payne","roman-payne","romance"],"id":21902,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["adam-and-eve","inspirational","intellect","morality"],"id":26094,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to a germ—a little bit of a speck that you can't see without a microscope powerful enough to raise a gnat to the size of a church.('The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Tuckey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980).","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["adam","adam-and-eve","bible","charles-darwin","church","darwin","ernst-haeckel","evolution","genesis","germ","haeckel","herbert-spencer","huxley","religion","science","science-and-religion","spencer","t-h-huxley","thomas-henry-huxley","thomas-huxley"],"id":34264,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["adam-and-eve","aversion","bible","brain","centuries","contempt","deity","desire","experience","expression","fable","fantasy","fear","garden-of-eden","growth","hatred","ideas","impressions","knowledge","language","love","myth","observation","savage","senses","serpent","the-bible"],"id":53988,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and sisters, and the influence they wield, I look upon them as the mainspring and soul of our being here. It is true that man is first. Father Adam was placed here as king of the earth, to bring it into subjection. But when Mother Eve came she had a splendid influence over him. A great many have thought it was not very good; I think it was excellent' (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 199).).","author":"Brigham Young","tags":["adam-and-eve","mother","motherhood"],"id":56553,"author_id":"Brigham+Young"},{"text":"God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.","author":"Wesley Miller","tags":["adam-and-eve","christianity","sin","theology"],"id":92646,"author_id":"Wesley+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}