17 Movie Quotes about Extinction (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about extinction, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 The Jedi are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe.

Peter Cushing in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

2 Take that, walnut-brain. No wonder you're extinct.

Tom Hanks as Sheriff Woody in Toy Story 3

3 He's embracing the future there, and you're just holding us back. -I hold you back, all right. From extinction.

Garry Shandling as Verne; Eugene Levy as Lou in Over the Hedge

4 And sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find.

Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

5 Dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction.

Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

6 No wonder you're extinct. I'm gonna run you over when I come back down.

Wayne Knight as Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park

7 The complete history of the American buffalo. It, too, is becoming extinct.

Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson in Desk Set (1957)

8 Did you know that no land animal with a body weight of over 50 pounds survived that age?

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

9 Extinction is part of the natural order.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

10 How could we have foreseen the extinction of so many coworkers and friends.

Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius in Forbidden Planet (1956)