Quote by Colette Freedman

“Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.”

— Alex Flinn

“Oysters oysters oysters split split split”

— N. V. Smith

“Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”

— Padgett Powell

“So come on out, my dear old sweet Sister, - & we'll open our oysters together.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.”

— Truth Devour

“Pearls are congealed oyster spit.”

— Margaret Atwood

“I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.”

— Rumi

“Oyster Bay, Florida,is a diminutive settlement plodding along the path to ghost town status.”

— M.W.Gordon

“Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast. Indeed, they are almost indispensable.”

— Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière