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Dorothy Garrod
4 quotes
“You crawl on your stomach for hours … climbing up yawning abysses (lighted only by an acetylene lamp …) and get knocked on the head by stalactites and on the legs by stalagmites, and in the end arrive at all sorts of wonders; bison modelled in clay, and portraits of sorcerers, and footprints of Magdalenian man.”
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to cousin Jean, 1921
“Mud, muck, ooze upon the floor, torn tents and thunder – all were forgotten as the sherry bottle was opened”
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dorothy Garrod dairy, April 1934
“j’aime mieux écrire que discuter de vive voix [I much prefer to write than discuss aloud]”
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Box 38, M.A.N., 19 February 1961
“Europe was only after all a peninsula of Africa and Asia”
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Splendid Idiosyncrasy: Prehistory at Cambridge, 1915-50, 19 February 1961