Welcome to our collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes about dinosaurs! Dinosaurs, the magnificent creatures that once roamed the Earth, continue to capture our imagination and curiosity. From the towering Tyrannosaurus Rex to the gentle giants like Brachiosaurus, these prehistoric beings have left an indelible mark on our collective consciousness. Whether you’re a paleontology enthusiast, a dinosaur aficionado, or simply fascinated by the mysteries of the ancient world, you’ll find a wealth of wisdom and insight encapsulated in the words of scientists, writers, and thinkers who have marveled at these creatures of the past.
As we delve into the realm of dinosaurs, we invite you to explore the diverse perspectives and profound observations that have been shared throughout history. From reflections on their evolutionary significance to musings on their extinction, these quotes offer glimpses into the awe-inspiring world of dinosaurs and the impact they continue to have on our understanding of life on Earth. So, join us on this journey through time as we uncover the enduring allure and fascination of dinosaurs.
I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls. Danielle Campbell
It’s hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we’ll become less powerful. But it’ll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let’s get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs – I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have wanted them to die out, either. Andrea Riseborough
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives! Deb Caletti
Kids today aren’t listening to music audio-only. They’re picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren’t moving around. Who wants to do that? It’s like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who’s flying around space. If I’m a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. will.i.am
I’m trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures. Jack Horner
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. Elon Musk
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. James Callis
I try to eat food that hasn’t been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese – even though those are very tasty. I like to eat food that can actually make it through the 20-plus feet of my small intestine. Rooney Mara
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn’t drag their tails, and you get arguments. Jack Horner
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. Jhonen Vasquez
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven’t had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. Jack Horner
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. Will Ferrell
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. Douglas Adams
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs. Steven Hall
We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs. Ian Gillan
There’s something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings. Colin Trevorrow
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. Jack Horner
‘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. Colin Trevorrow
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. Colin Trevorrow
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy. Jim Lovell
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. Richard Madden
The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs. Robert T. Bakker
People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs! Jason O’Mara
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. Olga Kurylenko
Horizontal and vertical sprawl… are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. Leon Krier
Zombies are eternal. They’re like dinosaurs. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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. Brian Blessed
Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them. Colin Trevorrow
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? Larry the Cable Guy
Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good – that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, very sad. But I have to say, there are a lot of threats we face as people and, as someone who lives in Los Angeles, I’m personally more likely to die from driving on the freeway than I am from an asteroid, so you have to put that risk in perspective. Carrie Nugent
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. Seth Shostak
Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can’t curb their enthusiasm when they’re in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can’t stop them from reading and thinking. Robert T. Bakker
It’s a ‘Doctor Who’ budget. A BBC budget, although a very good one. But you know you can’t do dinosaurs endlessly for 45 minutes, so there has to be a big ‘other’ story going on. Chris Chibnall
There are Christians who think there were seven actual days, or that creation was over time. They have answers for dinosaurs and things of that nature. And I don’t claim to have any of those answers. And I understand people wanting to have discussions about it. Shawn Michaels
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. Kyle Hill
I watched all these movies like ‘King Kong’ and ‘Godzilla’ when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating. Brian Tee
I can only really speak for myself and what I’ve noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They’re so different from human beings. Bryce Dallas Howard
There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs… the Nationalists who can’t accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed. Johann Lamont
Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens. Ken Ham
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. Rebecca Solnit
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed. Liu Cixin
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. Valerie Simpson
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. John Badham
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. Jared Diamond
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. Colin Trevorrow
Here’s the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I’m an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I’m effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they’d die? That’s me. John Hodgman
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year. Jack Horner
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named. Jack Horner
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I’ve been interested in dinosaurs. Jack Horner
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. Andrew Neil
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. Michael Specter
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. Chelsea Clinton
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. Robert T. Bakker
When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then ‘Star Wars’ came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with ‘Close Encounters,’ and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome. Dee Bradley Baker
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. Seth Shostak
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. Walter Cronkite
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. Jack Horner
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. Sara Paxton
Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs. Ken Ham
Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs – boy or girl. Colin Trevorrow
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs. Jack Horner
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. James Young
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. David H. Koch
If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn’t want to say anything. Ron Shock
Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. Steve Martin
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. Lydia Millet
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. Michio Kaku
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. Christo
Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It’s rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it’s not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow. Jean-Michel Jarre
James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul. Banks
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. Travis Beacham
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. Larry Niven
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. Michael Nesmith
I’m not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things – not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. Stephen Jay Gould
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won’t. Tucker Max
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. Henry Rollins
I’ve always loved dinosaurs. Matt Smith
I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I’d be the first paleo-astronaut. Bill Maris
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. Werner Herzog
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. Marvin Minsky
As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them. Tobias Hill
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. Chelsea Clinton
I do remember when I was little – I had to have been no more than 6 – I redid my room. I talked my mom into taking me to a store, and I got, like, all coordinating blue, green, and yellow colors, and the theme was dinosaurs. Bobby Berk
I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny. Ty Simpkins
I just couldn’t do a comedy show about ‘The History Of Dinosaurs;’ I’d get bored too easily. Russell Howard
At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction. Terry Teachout
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. Jordan Clarkson
Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution’s flight plan. Kyle Hill
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. Peter Benchley
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. Jack Horner
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. Nathan Myhrvold
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. Rose George
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It’s one of those tragedies that I’ve forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. Matt Smith
I have no patience with dinosaurs. Adam West
In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. Robert T. Bakker
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. Neil deGrasse Tyson
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. L. Neil Smith
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. Jared Diamond
Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they’re beautiful. They’re modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool. Bindi Irwin
Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldn’t find a way to make it really fun. We’ve got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years. Sid Meier