Mary Leakey Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Mary Leakey

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

Mary Leakey

#6. Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

Mary Leakey

#7. I never felt interpretation was my job.

Mary Leakey

#8. The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Mary Leakey

#9. I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary Leakey

#10. Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Mary Leakey

#11. 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

#12. I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Mary Leakey

#13. You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Mary Leakey