Archaeology Quote by Mortimer Wheeler

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

I would rather be ashes than dust.

— Jack London

“Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

“To dust is only to forestall burial ”

— Annie Dillard

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of…

— Earnest Hooton

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up…

— Griffin Jay

“Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance.”

— Connie Willis

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

“The dust that fell unnoted as a dew, Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth”

— Wilfred Owen

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

— Dejan Stojanovic

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