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title: "1 Looking Really Quotes By Mary Leakey"
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> [You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/you-only-find-what-you-are-looking-for-really-if-the-truth-be-known/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/i-go-once-a-year-to-the-serengeti-to-see-the-wildebeest-migrations/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/the-first-money-i-ever-earned-was-for-drawing-stone-tools/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [I never felt interpretation was my job.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/i-never-felt-interpretation-was-my-job/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/basically-i-have-been-compelled-by-curiosity/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/you-only-find-what-you-are-looking-for-really-if-the-truth-be-known/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/theories-come-and-go-but-fundamental-data-always-remain-the-same/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/theories-come-and-go-but-fundamental-data-always-remains/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/now-this-really-is-something-to-put-on-the-mantelpiece/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/i-had-never-passed-a-single-school-exam-and-clearly-never-would/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/i-got-too-old-to-live-in-the-bush-you-really-need-to-be-youngish-and/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/i-dug-things-up-i-was-curious-i-liked-to-draw-what-i-found/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/she-stops-pauses-turns-to-the-left-to-glance-at-some-possible-threat/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/no-amounts-of-stone-and-bone-could-yield-the-kinds-of-information/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/there-were-details-like-clothing-hair-styles-and-the-fragile-objects/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

> [I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-leakey/i-d-rather-be-in-a-tent-than-in-a-house/)

[Mary Leakey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-leakey/)

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