Top 60 Dinosaurs Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.

I’ve always loved dinosaurs.

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.

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing – I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that’s what it is. It’s horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don’t get any erosion, and you don’t see any dinosaurs.

I’m dying to do something sci-fi! I would love to be on a spaceship and firing a laser gun! Something like that would be really awesome. Or something with dinosaurs. Or preferably both at once.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

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.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I’d be the first paleo-astronaut.

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.

I guess I’m in a state of becoming. Even though I’ve had a full career and I’ve been around a long time, it’s like dinosaurs are coming back. It’s all new. I’m having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

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.

I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of ‘Jurassic Park.’

I was way into ‘Voltron,’ Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs – for a while, I wanted to be a paleontologist. So it’s almost like primal, ancestral mythology to me, this fascination with monsters.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.

Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution’s flight plan.

Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it’s unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.

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

Raised on Bill Nye videos, LEGOs, and CD-ROMs of dinosaurs, I was a lump of nerdy clay waiting to be molded. ‘Mythbusters’ came to me at a critical time, and it transformed me into who I am today.

I’ve got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

There’s something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

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.

If the dinosaurs are any indication, there’s a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Y’all know how we have dogs and stuff right? So I think it was bigger people in the world before us, and the dinosaurs was they pets.

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.

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?

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs – I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that – just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.

I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn’t drag their tails, and you get arguments.

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

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.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

The evolution at ‘Teen Vogue‘ is not a result of dinosaurs in a board room coming up with a strategy to reach the kids.

Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board – as he did with me, and as he’s done with other editors as well.

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I’m thinking, I hope they’ll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn’t have dinosaurs in it – which I plan to do.

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they’re beautiful. They’re modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

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.

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.

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We’d expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

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

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

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.