Archaeologists Quotes

• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Funny, Birthday

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

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• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

  Douglas Coupland

  California, Scary, Culture

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• Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

  John Agar

  Agents, Publicity, Royalty

  "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  John Barrymore

  Venus De Milo, Boxing, Missing

  "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

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• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reflection, Faithful, One Day

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• Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Creative, Zoologist, Anecdotes

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• Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Crazy, Museums, Hands

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• The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Dies, I Can

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2012). “Jam”, p.169, Dark Horse Comics

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

  Griffin Jay

  Believe, Skulls, People

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• We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

  Yosef Abramowitz

  Needs, World, Moral

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• [Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
  Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

  Nigel Dennis

  Witty, Husband, Science

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• A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Museums, Hands

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7617, Delphi Classics

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• We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

  John Lehman

  Ocean, Opening Up, Eras

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• Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

  Joan Jett

  Astronaut, Wanted, Diverse

  Interview With Evelyn Mcdonnell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2010.

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• As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Air, Dust

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• We're clear," she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

  Rachel Caine

  Psycho, Kind, Said

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Past, Gold, Daggers

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Eye, Artist, Self

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.31, Penguin

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• 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 ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

  Mary Leakey

  Science, Arrows, Yield

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• In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

  Louise Bernikow

  Mother, Past, History

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

  Karl Pilkington

  Years, People, Interesting

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Turtles, Sound, Swallowing

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• The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Earth, Geology, Geologist

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.21, Arktos

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• Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

  Rob Bell

  Reading, Israel, Doe

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident.

  James Kahn

  Doctors, Rumor, Remember

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