Peter Benchley Quotes

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

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

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.