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
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter,… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol 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
“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
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It was funny how none of her classes in library science had prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff… — Jen McKinlay Copy Share Image
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“I can see the headlines now - 'Librarian Dies From Head Explosion Due to Years of Suppression; Words Found Plastered All Over… — Kathleen Buckley Copy Share Image
“From The World's Strongest Librarian: To see the value of a library, ignore the adults. Find an inquisitive child who doesn't have… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian.… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers- adept at crowd control, at collaborating… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in… — Louis Stanley Copy Share Image
“She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school… — Keith Gray Copy Share Image
“Her expression shut faster than a poked clam. 'I'll just get a cardigan.' He might not be a hellraiser anymore but Devin… — Karina Bliss Copy Share Image
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I've stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my… — Michael Perry 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
Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
