A Quote by Richard Owen

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

Richard Owen

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Richard Owen
English - Scientist
July 20, 1804 - December 18, 1892

The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

J. G. Ballard

I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

Nicolas Cage

It pays to be in the best shape possible when you're wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth!

Terri Irwin

In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate governments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.

James Madison

I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.

Stephen Furst

Reptiles are very low maintenance.

Danny Green

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

Zora Neale Hurston

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

Mahatma Gandhi

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

Ralph Steadman

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

Saadi

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

Suzanne Curchod

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Nicolas Cage

America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.

Ice Cube

There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.

Frank Drake

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

Ambrose Bierce

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