Quotes about Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. Votes: 4

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. Votes: 4

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. Votes: 4

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs. Votes: 4

Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldnt find a way to make it really fun. Weve got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years. Votes: 4

Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either. Votes: 4

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. Votes: 4

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. Votes: 4

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. Votes: 4

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. Votes: 3

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. Votes: 3

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds. Votes: 3

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. Votes: 3

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year. Votes: 3

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. Votes: 3

Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations. Votes: 3

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth. Votes: 3

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. Votes: 2

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. Votes: 2

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. Votes: 2

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out Votes: 2

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy. Votes: 2

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. Votes: 2

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. Votes: 2

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. Votes: 2

I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then? Votes: 2

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs. Votes: 2

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time. Votes: 2

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. Votes: 2

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! Votes: 2

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested. Votes: 2

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs. Votes: 2

Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as... dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing. Votes: 2

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. Votes: 2

I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating. Votes: 2

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. Votes: 2

Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing? Votes: 2

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. Votes: 2

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible. Votes: 2

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them. Votes: 2

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! Votes: 2

When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it. Votes: 2

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting. Votes: 2

Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Votes: 2

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around. Votes: 2

If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it. Votes: 2

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much. Votes: 2

Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and skill in the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, the most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day. Votes: 2

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. Votes: 2

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Votes: 2

This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benovelent deity trying to save us from another Titan. Votes: 2

I've always loved dinosaurs. Votes: 0

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs. Votes: 0

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day. Votes: 0

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science. Votes: 0

The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? Votes: 0

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons. Votes: 0

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct. Votes: 0

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings. Votes: 0

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs. Votes: 0

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. Votes: 0

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve. Votes: 0

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos. Votes: 0

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue. Votes: 0

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them. Votes: 0

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy Votes: 0

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Votes: 0

And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green Votes: 0

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin Votes: 0

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut. Votes: 0

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors. Votes: 0

The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the "dinosaurs. Votes: 0

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. Votes: 0

If human is capable of conducting genocide,no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. Votes: 0

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity? Votes: 0

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself. Votes: 0

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. Votes: 0

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. Votes: 0

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures. Votes: 0

Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments. Votes: 0

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. Votes: 0

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs Votes: 0

The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote. Votes: 0

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' Votes: 0

While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact. Votes: 0

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. Votes: 0

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you? Votes: 0

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. Votes: 0

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life. Votes: 0

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight? Votes: 0

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian. Votes: 0

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice. Votes: 0

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago. Votes: 0

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code. Votes: 0

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse? Votes: 0

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes. Votes: 0

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. Votes: 0

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life. Votes: 0

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs. Votes: 0

Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs. Votes: 0

We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris. Votes: 0

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock. Votes: 0

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy. Votes: 0

Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs? Votes: 0

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables. Votes: 0

I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with. Votes: 0

My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus. Votes: 0

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment. Votes: 0

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. Votes: 0

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room." Votes: 0

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators. Votes: 0

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel. Votes: 0

Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs. Votes: 0

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky. Votes: 0

Fifteen states across the country have gas prices that have dipped below $2. That means it's now cheaper to buy a gallon of liquefied dinosaurs than one cup of coffee at Starbucks. Votes: 0

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election... Votes: 0

This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses. Votes: 0

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Votes: 0

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs. Votes: 0

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Votes: 0

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic. Votes: 0

We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days.""When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked."Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young. Votes: 0

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church. Votes: 0

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. Votes: 0

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. Votes: 0

I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something. Votes: 0

I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous. Votes: 0

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride? Votes: 0

There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. Votes: 0

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first. Votes: 0