Top 100 Extinct Quotes
#1. Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.
Liu Cixin
#2. Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.
Dr. Seuss
#3. I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content.
Gerald Durrell
#4. Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.
Henry Miller
#5. Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.
Isabella Bird
#6. Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
John Burnside
#7. The dinosaurs who studied dinosaurs would soon become extinct in their own right. Watson
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#8. The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me ...
Mary Wollstonecraft
#10. Most of the languages that now exist are almost certain to become extinct within this century.
John McWhorter
#11. I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
#12. She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her
Rebecca Miller
#13. The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.
Richard Jefferies
#14. I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
David Attenborough
#15. At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.
Tom Robbins
#16. A Caution to Everybody
consider the Auk.
Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk.
Consider Man, who may well become extinct,
Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked.
Ogden Nash
#17. It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.
Dan Simmons
#18. Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct ...
Joel Achenbach
#19. Supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.
Jerry A. Coyne
#20. Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
George Gaylord Simpson
#21. The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson
#22. That's crazy-rare."
"And now it's extinct.
Devon Monk
#23. The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.
Simon Hoggart
#24. Eagles are extinct," grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.
Dan Simmons
#25. Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.
L.A. Serrot
#26. At the meeting of our lips, peacocks went into hiding, elephants suffered memory loss, camels developed a maddening thirst, and dinosaurs long thought to be extinct turned up on the evening news.
Tom Robbins
#27. Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.
Steve Miller
#28. We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.
Michio Kaku
#29. The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy
#30. Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Kevin Kelly
#31. My rage is not malicious; like a spark
Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint
It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.
William Goffe
#32. There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.
Steve Fowler
#33. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.
Heather O'Neill
#34. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a cell phone case.
P. Anastasia
#35. What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.
Philip Gourevitch
#36. Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
Chris Noth
#37. Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
J.G. Ballard
#38. A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.
Charles Darwin
#39. The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. Humanity must work together to stop deforestation. Every minute over 160 acres of land feel the destructive effects of deforestation. Deforestation causes species to become extinct, disrupts natural habitats, and erodes the top soil of viable farming lands causing drought and famine.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#41. For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.
John Armstrong
#42. Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don't exist.
Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.
Tegan Quin
#43. If you're worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They'd say the caribou would be extinct. You've got to shake them away with a stick. They're all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there.
George H. W. Bush
#44. If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.
Tommy Shaw
#45. From her own life experience Keldaren knew that loveable hunks were in short supply anywhere in the galaxy, loveable hunks who knew her were an extinct species, and that more marketing companies than friends had her phone number.
L.L. Watkin
#46. NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
Elie Wiesel
#47. We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.
Jimmy Sangster
#48. If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
Albert Einstein
#49. Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?
Rick Bass
#50. 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
#51. Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
Richard Jackson
#52. I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood
#53. We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
Ernest Cline
#54. One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
#55. The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
Isabella Bird
#57. Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
Will Cuppy
#58. There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.
Hannah Senesh
#59. Words were torn from him. Ones he'd never spoken, in a language long since extinct, but only they could truly convey what she was to him, how much she meant.
Eternity wouldn't be enough...
Setta Jay
#60. Humans, bonobos, and chimpanzees comprise a subfamily called Homininae and will be called "hominines," while humans and other extinct members of our direct lineage will be referred to as "hominins" (Table 13.2).
Anonymous
#61. My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
John Irving
#62. Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.
Dante Alighieri
#63. Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct
Charles Darwin
#64. The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Robert Peel
#65. Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!
Anthony Doerr
#66. 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
#67. For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century ... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.
Douglas Adams
#68. The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Michael A. Stackpole
#69. I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct
if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. Beneficial indeed," Kruppe said, gratefully accepting the earthenware mug. "Kruppe has learned the value of modern language. Such long-lipped dribbles common to those ancient scholars are a curse Kruppe is thankful to find extinct in our time.
Steven Erikson
#71. Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#72. I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman
which means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me.
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
Ed Rollins
#74. Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul
#75. He's a moron being an asshole. You don't shoot people for being assholes, or the human race would be extinct.
L.S. Hawker
#76. We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, risk will be no more.
Philip K. Howard
#77. This is about a race of people enslaved and made extinct.
Amy Ewing
#78. This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?
Lierre Keith
#79. All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
Carl Sagan
#80. The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds
Jerry Spinelli
#81. I feel strangely selfish to say that I am saddened that one of my favourite land mammals the rough Lemurs will be extinct soon. I guess with the loving weights of human endeavour it should just be expected and then we can all label yet another extinction as progress ...
Steve Merrick
#82. A sign in the window advertised the
long extinct Miller Genuine Draft.
Tom Merritt
#83. The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.
James Montgomery
#84. What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
Louise Leakey
#85. Yes. No. Hang on. So what were these people? And pterodactyls have been extinct for fifty million years."
"If you say so, dear. Your father never really talked about it.
Neil Gaiman
#86. We have books here bound in the hides of echidnes, krakens, and beasts so long extinct that those whose studies they are, are for the most part of the opinion that no trace of them survives unfossilized.
Gene Wolfe
#87. When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.
George Orwell
#88. If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
Adolf Loos
#89. 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. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#90. The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.
Sarah Lacy
#91. Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug. - GERARD RYDER
Christopher Moore
#92. If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
Peter Benchley
#93. Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.
Neil Shubin
#94. Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
Frederic William Farrar
#95. There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#96. The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.
Morrissey
#97. Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen; an open and resolute friend; and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND, and of the FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA.
Thomas Paine
#98. haragei - the art of balance and power emanating from the lower belly. Haragei was the basis of all Japanese martial arts, from sumo to karate to the almost extinct harakei. The
Eric Van Lustbader
#99. You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
W. Somerset Maugham
#100. Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.
William C. Samples
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