Archaeology Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image “As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Archaeology Busy Writing
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
My job is very close to what an archaeologist does: giving meaning to things that happened in the past. — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school. — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental. — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust… — Mortimer Wheeler Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
To mend a broken heart sometimes you gotta be a archaeologist, you have to dig deep and search for what still remains — Brian DeGroff Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“Biological evidence indicates that man, evolving with his food plants, developed horticulture and agriculture in both hemispheres at a time which may well have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
“...If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or Anthropology or… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
