Librarian Quotes · Page 3

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always…

— Margaret Mahy

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how…

— Jodi Picoult

Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories." "You hate the…

— Cassandra Clare

Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone…

— Laura Bush

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

— Kate Klise

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You…

— Anonymous

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is…

— Eugene H. Peterson

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has…

— Margaret Thatcher

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

— Barbara Pym

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition...

— Alan Moore

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.…

— Michael Moore

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor…

— Mona Eltahawy

Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”

— Dorothy Gambrell

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

— Nancy Pearl

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started…

— David McCullough

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a…

— Patrick Carman

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

— Ray Bradbury

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

— Carl Sagan

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed…

— Garth Nix

God bless the Reference Librarians

— James Lee Burke

She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that…

— Kate Morton

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than…

— Terry Pratchett

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

— Carole Nelson Douglas