Librarian Quotes · Page 5

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

— Vissarion Belinsky

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

— Nancy Pearl

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of…

— S. R. Ranganathan

“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.”

— Margaret Mahy

“Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books.”

— Jay Kristoff

“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.”

— Mick Jagger

“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

— Alexander Pope

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that…

— Christopher Morley

“If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most…

— Joe Hill

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…

— Rita Dove

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if…

— Patrick Ness

“Nope. I’m a librarian. You’re the cop. It’s none of my damn business why people are here. I just show them how…

— Emily Littlejohn

The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's…

— Julie Andrews

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read…

— Marilyn Johnson

“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a…

— Max Barry

The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be…

— Daniel Olivas

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever…

— Audre Lorde

But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about…

— Matt Labash

I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could…

— Jonathan Kellerman

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous…

— Lynn Austin

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between…

— William Osler

I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of…

— Paul Laffoley

“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“I had lost my connection with the universal energy and gained in its place precognition, visions, and a healing gift I could…

— Deborah Blake

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea…

— Jefferson Mays

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost…

— Rick Riordan

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big…

— Michael Chabon

“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn

“She was the type of librarian who has “Reading is supposed to be educational, not fun” tattooed somewhere.”

— Molly Harper

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

— Hisham Matar

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

— Ellen Hopkins

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

— Joss Whedon

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

— Molly Harper

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

— Tom Upton

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different…

— Lady Gaga

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

— Kate Klise

“Why a librarian?” he asked. “Princesses weren’t in high demand, so I opted for the next best thing.”

— Sidney Bristol