Archaeologist Quotes

#1. I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist.

Sarah Parcak

#2. The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#3. When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

Kevin J. Anderson

#4. Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident.

James Kahn

#5. The moreness of him was beginning to show. The way ruins were excavated by an archaeologist. Brushstroke by brushstroke. Bit by bit.

Ryan Graudin

#6. If you get a chance you should marry an archaeologist. I don't suppose there are too many to go around, but it's the best sort of husband to have. The older a woman gets, the more he's interested in her.

Menna Van Praag

#7. Place is not the background of archaeology - it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything.

Marilyn Johnson

#8. I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

Ben Stiller

#9. When people initially think of the term 'space archaeologist,' they think, 'Oh, it's someone who uses satellites to look for alien settlements on Mars or in outer space,' but the opposite is true - we're actually looking for evidence of past human life on planet earth.

Sarah Parcak

#10. He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!

Penelope Fitzgerald

#11. What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.

Sarah Parcak

#12. Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

Rob Bell

#13. Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatised memories;

Robert Galbraith

#14. As an archaeologist, I've often wondered how we as a race keep going through all the misery. The answer is revealed: the potential for closeness with strangers. Floating

Simon Van Booy

#15. The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

Agatha Christie

#16. While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

Karen Hesse

#17. an Afghan archaeologist followed the Taliban through the museum, "pleading for mercy as if begging for the lives of [his] own children."14 Such pleas were meaningless to those who felt their axes swung with God's weight behind them.

Karima Bennoune

#18. Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it?

Robert Holdstock

#19. I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.

Fred Rogers

#20. When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts,

Marilyn Johnson

#21. You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

Ted Danson

#22. It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

Karl Pilkington

#23. One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts - who can say when that will come in handy?

Marilyn Johnson

#24. [Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Nigel Dennis

#25. I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.

Juliet Aubrey

#26. I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in this school and she responds with detailed plans for her future life as an archaeologist or philosopher or - new, this - a veterinary surgeon.

William Boyd

#27. What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

Jack O'Neill

#28. I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

Stephen King

#29. An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.

Robert Shea

#30. To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.

Sarah Parcak

#31. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

#32. What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world ... It's the most exciting time in history to be an archaeologist.

Sarah Parcak

#33. It would be ironic for an archaeologist to catch something nasty from the past, perhaps the ultimate in experimental archaeology!

Paul G. Bahn

#34. Archaeologist, adventurer - I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.

Christina Dodd

#35. I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.

N.L.B. Horton

#36. I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

Kathy Reichs

#37. I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Agatha Christie

#38. On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

Christopher Lee

#39. Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Joan Jett

#40. Science is just as important as magic.

Donna Grant