Quotes About Dinosaurs

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.

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology.

No one, either in the nineteenth century or the twentieth, has ever built a persuasive case proving that dinosaurs as a whole were more like reptilian crocodiles than warm-blooded birds. No one has done this because it can't be done.

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

Mammalian furballs dream. So do birds and big-brained dinosaurs like raptors. But a rich dreamtime requires extra brain capacity where memory can mix with fantasy. Turtles and lizards and snakes sleep the dreamless sleep of the small-brained.

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

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

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

The mark was from the glue that once held a folder into which a library card would have fitted back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth and computers were the size of washing machines.

thought. Successionism means that one faith can replace a previous one that has ceased to function. In religious terms, it is comparable to what Darwin would later postulate in the theory of evolution: the dinosaurs were replaced by the Neanderthals who were in turn replaced by fully developed Homo sapiens.

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

Sundays, like a stanza break Or shower's end of all applause, For some old unexplaining sake The optimistic tread these shores, As lonely as the dead awake Or God among the dinosaurs.

That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

So ended the days of the last dinosaur circus.

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.

Hamish shrugged. "It's all pretty cool and impressive … if you never saw fucking Jurassic Park .

I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.

I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids.

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.

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

The last time I dated, dinosaurs roamed the earth. We didn't even have electricity.