Adam and Eve/abrahamic Traditions

Famous quotes containing the words adam and eve, adam, eve and/or traditions:

    “That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “And al was for an appel,”
    —Unknown. Adam Lay Ibounden (l. 5)

    “When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?”
    —John Ball (hanged 1381)

    “And all the great traditions of the Past
    They saw reflected in the coming time.

    And thus forever with reverted look
    The mystic volume of the world they read,
    Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
    Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)