Mary Leakey Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Mary Leakey:
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
~Mary Leakey
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.
~Mary Leakey
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I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.
~Mary Leakey
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I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
~Mary Leakey
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
~Mary Leakey
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You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
~Mary Leakey
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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
~Mary Leakey
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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
~Mary Leakey
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I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.
~Mary Leakey
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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
~Mary Leakey
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She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
~Mary Leakey
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I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.
~Mary Leakey
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I never felt interpretation was my job.
~Mary Leakey
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I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
~Mary Leakey
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