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Fake is as old as the Eden tree. -- Orson Welles
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. -- Nadine Gordimer
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. -- Jerry Falwell
Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world. -- Larry Hagman
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? -- Chuck Palahniuk
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? -- Julio Cortazar
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. -- Nadine Gordimer
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. -- Milan Kundera
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. -- Voltaire
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. -- Wilfred Burchett
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. -- Vicente Fox
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. -- Ann Voskamp
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above. -- Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. -- William Shakespeare
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad. -- John Eldredge
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.... -- Joyce Cary
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. -- Joni Mitchell
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. -- Joyce Cary
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool. -- Paul Dano
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. -- Dennis Potter
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. -- Elizabeth Bowen
God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden. -- Kirk Cameron
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. -- Matthew Simpson
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. -- John Milton
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? -- Countee Cullen
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. -- Christopher Hitchens
Wheresoever she was, there was Eden. -- Mark Twain
In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent. -- Derek Walcott
What Eden have they torn you from? -- Cesare Borgia
Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within -- Jorge Luis Borges
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Eden Hazard is a great player. He has magic -- Frank Lampard
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden. -- Bob Dylan
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary. -- Amy Waldman
The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day. -- John Keble
The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently. -- Gerald Massey
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. -- John Dryden
If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden...I wonder why. -- James Baldwin
Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. -- Selena Kitt
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. -- Ford Madox Ford
God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden. -- Toba Beta
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven -- Augustine Birrell
When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it. -- Marie Lu
In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude. -- Rick Warren
Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life. -- Francine Rivers
It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. -- Stephen King
After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds! -- Bettie Page
The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. -- Sylvia Earle
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. -- Thomas Sowell
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. -- Mitch Leigh
... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. -- Umberto Eco
Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled. -- Edward Carpenter
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. -- I. L. Peretz
We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly. -- Thomas Cole
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there. -- Peter Cook
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. -- Timothy Leary
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss. -- John Milton
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster. -- Fannie Hurst
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. -- Emily Dickinson
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble. -- Rita Mae Brown
It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home. -- Mark Lowry
The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden. -- Paul P. Enns
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden... -- R. C. Sproul
The friend is a human EdenBut Eden is so easily lostWhen you choose, choose wiselyBefore you share, count the cost -- Genieve Dawkins
The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish. -- Paul P. Enns
We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden. -- Van Jones
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. -- Henry Van Dyke
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. -- Sherman Alexie
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant. -- Terence McKenna
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. -- John Galt
The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals. -- Frank Moore Cross
Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. -- Donna J. Haraway
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. -- Arthur Miller
With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man. -- Peter Gabriel
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so. -- Dean Koontz
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again. -- Joan D. Chittister
Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender. -- Dean Koontz
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. -- Jon Gries
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. -- Heather Gudenkauf
If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming. -- Dean Koontz
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. -- Max Lucado
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie. -- Joanne Fluke
God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony. -- Max Lucado
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden. -- Bob Dylan
The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. -- Timothy Leary
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. -- Brigham Young
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. -- Brigham Young
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. -- Cyril Connolly
UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell -- Nikki Sixx
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise -- Cesare Borgia
Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve. -- Thomas King
They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by being kicked out of the Garden. -- Michael Walterich
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. -- William Cowper
Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts! -- David Berg
But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil. -- David Jeremiah
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background. -- John Steinbeck
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. -- Mark Twain
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! -- Herman Melville
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure. -- Jamaica Kincaid
In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden. -- Richard Engel
If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything? -- Daniel Tosh
It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world. -- Larkin Grimm
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it. -- Ken Wilber
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition. -- Mitch Albom
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'. -- Ezra Taft Benson

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