Archaeology Quotes
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Archaeology Quotes & Sayings
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Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.
— Criag Whitman
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
There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
— William F. Albright
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
— Anthony F. C. Wallace
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.
— Kent V. Flannery
If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.
— Kimberly Brouillette
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.
— Agatha Christie
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.
— Vernor Vinge
I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.
— Michelle Stuart
He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!
— Penelope Fitzgerald
Archaeology profs aren't supernatural minions of a vengeful goddess," Patricia pointed out.
"Want to bet? — Allyson James
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The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archaeology.
— Cyril Bailey
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
— Michael Ondaatje
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
— Joan D. Vinge
Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.
— Edward Dawson
What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott
Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.
— Mortimer Wheeler
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
— Clifton Fadiman
I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.
— Robert Polidori
I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.
— Michel Foucault
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
— Bryan Sykes
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
— Thomas R. Pickering
History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise.
— Doug Scott
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
— Catherine Fisher
Archaeology digs the Bible's grave.
— Steve Dustcircle
Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?
— Josh Gates
Place is not the background of archaeology - it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything.
— Marilyn Johnson
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read.
— L.J.M. Owen
Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.
— Patricia Cornwell
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
— John F. Lehman Jr.
History is the archaeology of the present and future.
— Patrick Mendis
it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once
— Elizabeth Payne
It would be ironic for an archaeologist to catch something nasty from the past, perhaps the ultimate in experimental archaeology!
— Paul G. Bahn
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
— Michael Rostovtzeff