Mary Leakey Quotations

I think it's the most important find in view of human evolution. I was really looking for tools, but we never found any at the site.

Once she summed up her carrer simply: 'I dug things up. I was curious. And then I liked to draw what i found

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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