101 Quotes About Dinosaurs
- Author Kailin Gow
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Lots of animals are smaller than they used to be. Look at the size crocodiles used to be around the time of the dinosaurs. Or most of the huge mammals following that. Sometimes, being smaller means that you don’t have to find as much food.”, FADE by Kailin Gow
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- Author Gayle Forman
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We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days.""When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked."Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young.
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- Author Jack Horner
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The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
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- Author Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
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Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.
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- Author Ibi Zoboi
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I dreamed of going to the most remote places on this earth to dig for old bones, older than people. Before humans and their stupid ideas. Before hate. Maybe even before love, too. Dinosaurs just existed. No lectures, no books, no language. No world-conquering Europeans and no defeated everybody else. Just those powerful, unrestrained creatures roaming the planet.
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- Author Jennifer Ackerman
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We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us.
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- Author Charles Kingsley
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Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.
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- Author Annalee Newitz
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Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?
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- Author Kathryn Davis
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Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.
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