Top 230 Extinct Quotes & Sayings

Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

If you don't change, you will become extinct.

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

IF you don't change, you can become extinct!

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

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.

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

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.

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.

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.'

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. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.

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?

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

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.

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

...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.

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

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?

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.

The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

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.

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.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

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.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.