Extinct Quotes

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Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself. — Lawrence Block
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. — Michael Crichton
Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? — J. G. Ballard
I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten… — Nigel Slater
Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not… — Nicole Krauss
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. — Richard Dawkins
He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous… — Victoria Hanley
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct. — Jasper Fforde
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,… — Charles Darwin
Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you do not change, you can become extinct ! — Spencer Johnson
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of… — Eckhart Tolle
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct. — Cassandra Clare
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. — Jerry Spinelli
Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. — Lauren DeStefano
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… — Dean Koontz

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