Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in… — Avi Copy Share Image
“She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale… — T.E.D. Klein Copy Share Image
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
