Quotes by Mary Leakey

• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
• The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone 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.
• Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
• No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
• I never felt interpretation was my job.
• I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
• Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
• I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.