Top 100 Extinct Quotes
#1. I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
Gael Garcia Bernal
#2. The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
Bertrand Russell
#3. Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.
Eric Thomas
#4. 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 dinosaurs.
Dean Koontz
#5. 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
#6. When the old faith is gone, and the enthusiasm for the gospel is extinct, it is no wonder that people seek something else in the way of delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. Can we render ourselves extinct? Possibly. Perhaps total nuclear war, 1980s style, would do it, although even a horrible nuclear winter might simply mean that New Zealanders inherit the globe.
Frank Landis
#8. If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.
Ted Turner
#9. The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
James A. Baldwin
#10. Evolution is scary. However, the thought of going extinct because you refused to change should be more terrifying
Mark Anthony Peterson
#11. Well, did you know that the dinosaurs really didn't go extinct? Aliens were so fascinated by them that they decided to gather them all up and take them to their own planet. Henri
Pittacus Lore
#12. Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
Christopher Cokinos
#13. Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.' 'But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals - mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.
George Orwell
#14. Now, scientists could reconstitute many more species by replacing the DNA of closely related creatures with DNA from extinct species.
Anonymous
#15. The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
Bette Midler
#16. If every parent unwound a kid due to disrespect, the human race would go extinct in a single generation
Neal Shusterman
#17. All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.
Andrew Mason
#18. For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde
#19. I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?
Cassandra Clare
#20. A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.
Charles Darwin
#21. If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
Charley, The Voice of the Butterfly
John Nichols
#22. I look to the skies
and expect artificial passenger pigeons,
blackening the light,
people taking potshots for kicks
imagining one day they will be extinct.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#23. 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, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.
Charles Darwin
#24. Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
Sam Kean
#25. If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct
unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.
Camille Paglia
#26. If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
Victor Hugo
#27. The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.
David Foreman
#28. Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols!
Muhammad Iqbal
#29. You're enjoying this,' said Amy. 'My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory's gone. And you're enjoying this.'
'No, I'm not,' said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Left alone, the Florida panther would be remembered as a textbook exercise on how to go extinct while your abundant and vociferous advocates argue about the process.
Stephen J. O'Brien
#31. But without people, the village dog and pampered pet alike would soon disappear - dogs would become extinct.
Raymond Coppinger
#32. If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams
#33. She fell in love with an extinct volcano.
Anais Nin
#34. The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
Georg Trakl
#35. Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.
Gaylord Nelson
#36. Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#37. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us. For
Carlo Rovelli
#38. Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.
Marilyn Manson
#39. If people really gave it full consideration, I mean, like if you could return a baby after thirty days' examination like one of those Time-Life books, then I figure the entire human species would go extinct in a month's time.
Barbara Kingsolver
#40. Our government has no interest in nearly extinct languages. They barely have a grasp on the one they use.
Jennifer Foehner Wells
#41. But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.
Suzanne Collins
#42. Stereotypes become extinct faster than there appear new impressions concerning our reality, culture and consciousness...
Mykyta Isagulov
#43. 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. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
Ambrose Bierce
#44. People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
Betty White
#45. But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
Mary Shelley
#46. Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov
#47. If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#48. If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln
#49. I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.
Ethel M. Dell
#50. If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
Ishmael
#51. I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
Ambrose Bierce
#54. Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.
Bauvard
#56. The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
Karl Popper
#57. An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.
Daniel Pauly
#58. 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
#59. Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring.
Carl Sagan
#60. Red squirrels ... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.
Michael Aspel
#61. You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
Michael Crichton
#62. The Maoris, New Zealand's first Sapiens colonisers, reached the islands about 800 years ago. Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species.
Yuval Noah Harari
#63. The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
Abraham Lincoln
#64. On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,
Robert Hughes
#65. Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.
Lawrence Block
#66. Species went extinct and new ones evolved from protozoa while he sat in his car in the dark and waited to see how badly he'd fucked this up.
Amy Jo Cousins
#67. I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.
Hendrik Poinar
#68. What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
Jim Cymbala
#69. It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood,
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
Charles Lamb
#71. Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is bright like the moon, pure, serene, undisturbed, and in whom all gaiety is extinct.
Various
#73. Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity.
Mohith Agadi
#74. I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.
Nate Mendel
#75. Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
Ambrose Bierce
#76. I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.
Stuart L. Pimm
#78. That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
Louisa May Alcott
#79. Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Douglas William Jerrold
#80. Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'
Louise Leakey
#81. Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
Daniel Dennett
#82. In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#83. DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.
Ambrose Bierce
#84. Steller's sea cow, named after the German naturalist Georg Steller, who discovered a small community of them living on Bering Island, off the coat of Siberia, in 1741. Hunted mercilessly by humans, within thirty years of its discovery by Steller this remarkable species was extinct.
Bill Bryson
#85. The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
Mary J. Blige
#86. Malcolm said, You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?
Michael Crichton
#87. The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
A. Whitney Brown
#88. Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
Lauren DeStefano
#89. If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
Fred Allen
#90. I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for '[intelligent] design.' If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!
Irven Devore
#91. For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Octavio Paz
#92. The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.
Cher
#93. The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.
Bill Bryson
#94. The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another ...
Julius Caesar
#95. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous. Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that - what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?" "I
Suzanne Collins
#96. Basically, there's something like sixty five million years between us and the T-Rex, and the Stegosaurus was actually extinct eighty million years before him.' 'Million
Dave Johnston
#97. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.
George Orwell
#98. The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#99. There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
Hendrik Poinar
#100. An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand ...
Nicole Krauss
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