Librarian Quotes · Page 7

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa…

— Seth Godin

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in…

— Louis Stanley

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

— Warren Buffett

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

— Richard Armour

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending…

— Robert A. Heinlein

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know…

— Patrick Ness

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

— Beverly Cleary

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

— Patrick Carman

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not…

— Ian MacKaye

“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

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.…

— Garrison Keillor

Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later,…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

— Kate DiCamillo

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a…

— Brandon Sanderson

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in…

— Ray Bradbury

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.…

— Irving Stone

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

— Gloria Steinem

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

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation…

— Rick Riordan

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as…

— Gloria Steinem