We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

The window of opportunity opens and closes as fast as a camera's shutter.

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures.

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?

My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

I love 'The View,' so when you're living the dream, it's not work.

I don't shop by brand loyalty at all. I'm just drawn to what I like when I shop. I do like this brand called Tiger of Sweden a lot, though. They make great sportswear and tailoring. And Calvin Klein; big supporter of them as well.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.