Oyster Bay Town

Famous quotes containing the words oyster, bay and/or town:

    I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him,
    Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
    Over the chained bay waters Liberty—
    Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes
    Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    It is an old saying in the town that “most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney of a neighbor’s house.”
    —Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)