Mary Leakey Quotes

"The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools."
- Mary Leakey
(Related: Money, First, Tools)

"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
(Related: Time)

"Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece."
- Mary Leakey
(Related: Now)

"No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely."
- Mary Leakey
(Related: Information, Yield)

"I never felt interpretation was my job."
- Mary Leakey
(Related: Job)

"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
(Related: Curiosity)

"I'd rather be in a tent than in a house."
- Mary Leakey