Quotes about Creation
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
— Cicero
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
— Margaret Atwood
You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
— Margaret Atwood
Ill take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So thats how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.
— Margaret Atwood
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
— Margaret Atwood
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first in your head, and then you make it real.
— Margaret Atwood
I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside.
— Margaret Atwood
The Human Words of God speak of the Creation in terms that could be understood by the men of old. There is no talk of galaxies or genes, for such terms would have confused them greatly! But must we therefore take as scientific fact the story that the world was created in six days, thus making a nonsense of observable data?
— Margaret Atwood
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.
— Margaret Atwood
Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.
— Margaret Atwood
God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.
— Margaret Atwood
He showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand … as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought, What may this be, and I was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last. For I thought it might fall suddenly to nothing, for little cause; and I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so has everything its being, through the love of God.
— Margaret Atwood