The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
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Related I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe... STEPHEN FRY ...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because sh... DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk ... AGNES REPPLIER Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk ... AGNES REPPLIER She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around... JODI PICOULT More than any other single trait, it is the apple’s genetic variability—its ineluctable wildness... MICHAEL POLLAN If you're a creationist, you can look at it this way: When Eve offered Adam the apple, he stood up t... DR. HUGO A. KEIM Adam may have been tempted by Eve but then Apples are only seasonal fruit. AMIT ABRAHAM Two brothers were discussing Adam and Eve. The 8-year-old asked: "How did Adam and Eve die?"And the ... UNKNOWN There are no signs it's a demand problem, ... It's a capacity problem, and one that's been visible f... PAUL LEMING As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of ... DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS Because God took one look at Adam and said, 'Wow. This guy's going to need all the help he can get.'... NANCY MEHL It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have... DAVE BARRY Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a ma... HELEN ROWLAND Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own appl... HERTA MüLLER Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was... DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it: even so good works are not the c... DANIEL CAWDRAY It hasn't sunk in. For every one of us that has been there for three or four campaigns, this is how ... MARK SCHWARZER People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this c... BOB COUSY It's at least 15 years. It takes that long. EIDO FRANCES CARNEY For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin, An animal was murdered for garments made o... JOYCE RACHELLE The trap is man's armored character structure and there's only one way out of it. It's not drugs and... ORSON BEAN I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 9... KALEY CUOCO They listened to our arguments and have agreed to postpone the cull, but we don't know for how long.... RUDI AARDE Satan," he said, "couldn't undo anything God had done. She could at least try to make existence for ... KURT VONNEGUT [I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve a... MODERATA FONTE That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning. C.S. LEWIS She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake... ORSON SCOTT CARD I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters. J.D. SALINGER At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red o... DAVID MITCHELL Adam and Eve were born in a garden, and gardens are still where people go to renew themselves by mee... CAROL WILLIAMS Inside that tiny seed, lives the roots, branches, bark, trunk, leaves, twigs and apple fruit of that... C. JOYBELL C. The city of Galveston has plans to exist without outside help at all for at least three days because... ANN THOMAS There's no fix in. If you look at how long it takes us to work with these people, it's not like they... LEN BARTOS It's a long-haul business right now. It will be at least three years before anyone can make a seriou... ARAM SINNREICH What we're trying to do is trim a 10-foot safety zone. But each tree is going to be different. We ta... DEBORA LIVENGOOD Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Adam, Grant and Tory have worked at ILM for some years. I worked there on one job with Grant and we ... JAMIE HYNEMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The city of Galveston has plans to exist without outside help at all for at least three days because... ANN THOMAS How bething the, gentliman,
How Adam dalf, and Eve span. UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three year... DAVID ROBERTS We know we've been in this situation before. It seems like it's been the same story for the past thr... GARY HAMILTON Quincy clearly feels, because of its proximity between the potato-growing areas and the apple-growin... PAT BOSS How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil. Th... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN In a garden long ago, the two majestic beings God had created used their capacities for purposes oth... JEREMY PIERRE Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fi... WILLIAM BLAKE It was a fruit we had never seen before, larger than an apple, about the size of a grapefruit. It wa... MAI AL-NAKIB I've been dragging before and got three hits and been feeling great and got none. How you feel doesn... LEW FORD I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from whi... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the cham... AL DAVIS I don't want it to be an excuse, but if you look across the board in any educational arena, it will ... KATHY KAWAGUCHI Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Ever since that troublemaker Eve handed that gullible Adam the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Goo... MIRABAI STARR I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I c... RAINA TELGEMEIER I've been here 17 years, and it has been here at least that long. BARBARA GANN Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been... NORMAN BORLAUG A tree that does not blossom, will bear no fruit JEFFREY FRY We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT Because it's an ordinance change, we have to wait at least 30 days before the ordinance takes affect... JEFF WILKINSON I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparrin... ALEXIS ARGUELLO Companies need to look at the MVNO market as a long-term commitment and not expect a positive cash f... IRA BRODSKY Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord ... CARL SAGAN There is also the personnel training and cost to consider, since it would take naval officers at lea... ANDREW YANG There is also the personnel training and cost to consider, since it would take naval officers at lea... ANDREW YANG Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on thi... BIBLE It is a long-awaited decision. We have been waiting for last three years. ARUN KEJRIWAL Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake ... NORA ROBERTS In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for... ETHAN CANIN Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria... WILLIAM LAW We're trying to change a mind-set, because there has been a lack of success with men's basketball. O... GREG AMODIO His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he wo... SALVATORE SATTA Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with th... RAY A. Knowing it's (been) coming for a long time, (we've been selling) baked chips for about a year. We ha... JANE JOHNSON Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's... DAVID RAKOFF That hurt because we could have scored at least three runs that inning, and it could have been a dif... BOB AMALIA There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ... FRANK RICH She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows aro... NICOLE KRAUSS This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of Eng... M.M. KAYE "It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years." GERARD WAY It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years GERARD WAY We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in ... LANCE COTTRELL (A new attitude) had to be developed. The first year was tough. It was hard for some of the guys tha... ERNIE ZEIGLER We have been building it for four years. We've been using it for at least two. BARB FOX Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace ... FRANçOISE SAGAN The New York Giants had been big in New England for years ? they were New England's team. Their game... BABE PARILLI Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple! When it ... TSEM TULKU RINPOCHE For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This... DAVID ROCKEFELLER Pretty much everyone in the brigade walks by the trophy at every day, and it's a big sense of pride ... DAVID MAHONEY We?re in it for the long term. We expect to hold a stock at least five or 10 years. MARTIN BATES Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms ... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the s... MAX LUCADO We hadn't released anything for three to three and half years. We just felt like we had been away fo... FREDRIK NILSSON Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, JOHN MILTON Anyway, the apple is essential. How come these hens don't get it? They go to church year after year,... PIA PERA
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JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT