Famous quotes containing the words ball, bearing and/or world:
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 1:29.
But in a later context, God told the disgraced Adam, “and thou shalt eat the herb of the field” (Genesis 3:18)
“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)