Hilary Hahn Quotes

I studied archaeology.

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.

The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.

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

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.

When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

I was a big history buff as a teenager.

Historical science is being left in the dust.

I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

I've found numerous things - settlements, temples, possible pyramids, forts, roads - the list goes on and on. I'm not as interested in the discoveries as the types of questions they help us formulate.

My favorite subject is history. It's interesting.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.