Gabby Culver

“The teeth are made from stern stuff. They can withstand floods, fires, even centuries in the grave. But the teeth are no match for the slow-motion catastrophe that is a life of poverty: its burdens, distractions, diseases, privations, low expectations, transience, the addictive antidotes that offer temporary relief at usurious rates. Others”
― Mary Otto, Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America

“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”
― Ogden Nash

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos