Mary Leakey Quotes

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

- Mary Leakey

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

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

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

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

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

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

- Mary Leakey

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

I never felt interpretation was my job.

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

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