Father Adam

Famous quotes containing the words father and/or adam:

“This is my father or, maybe,
It is as he was,

A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth
And sea and air.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.”
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)