Cretaceous Period Quotes

Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

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

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

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

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

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

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.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.