Quotes about Mary Leakey

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

#Mary Leakey

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity,...

#Mary Leakey

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

#Mary Leakey

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

#Mary Leakey

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

#Mary Leakey

I never felt interpretation was my job.

#Mary Leakey

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

#Mary Leakey

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

#Mary Leakey

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

#Mary Leakey