Quote by Neil Shubin

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

“The first hard hydroxyapatite-containing body parts were teeth. Hard bones arose not to protect animals, but to eat them.”

— Neil Shubin

Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.

— Isaac Marion

“..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking together like…

— Edward M. Erdelac

“The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“...just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw.”

— Robert R. McCammon

“A wounded animal yet bears teeth”

— Billie-Jo Williams

“Caelum was right: Why should they have to give so much, and never take anything in return? If everyone believed they were monsters, shouldn't…

— Lauren Oliver

“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the…

— Orson Scott Card

“You have really nice teeth,” Terry said and thought they could be excellent for his collection of human body parts.”

— Jonas Eriksson

“Bones were bones; these days, nothing was easier to come by.”

— George R.R. Martin