Mary Leakey Quotes

#1. With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Louise Leakey

#2. You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.

Chris Paul

#3. In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

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

Mary Leakey

#5. We're in on the secret, aren't we, Cas? And it's taking us out of the world.

Kendare Blake

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

Mary Leakey

#7. 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

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

Mary Leakey

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

Mary Leakey

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

Mary Leakey

#11. Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I never felt interpretation was my job.

Mary Leakey

#13. There are some days when I think for sure there are so many other stronger Christians than me out there.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#14. Touring is great because I love to travel.

Colin Donnell

#15. He lounged on his throne of fused human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther.

Rick Riordan

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

Mary Leakey

#17. Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

Daniel Boulud

#18. In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

George Lucas

#19. The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Henry James

#20. At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

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

Mary Leakey

#22. Darkness/Imprisoning Me/All That I See/Absolute Horror/I Cannot Live/I Cannot Die/Trapped In Myself/Body My Holding Cell

Metallica

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Mary Leakey

#26. I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

Caroline Lawrence

#27. 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

#28. That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.

Margaret Whiting

#29. It was all I could do to stop my cunt from coming round to see you without me.'
'Who's Mike Hunt?

Linda Banana

#30. And then they kiss.
Slowly, gently.
Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

Lisa McMann