I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
“What the hell do you have on?” Emily looked down at her ensemble. “I have done something wrong, haven't I?” “Did Tinker… — Bella Street Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between… — William Osler Copy Share Image
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“A future owned by yellow journalism was not one most reporters wished to contemplate. Some libraries had already barred the "World" and… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only really break once.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat on par wit God- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
“Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for--what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (--Sally Jay… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best… — Sarah Smith Copy Share Image
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty,… — Countess of Longford Elizabeth Pakenham Copy Share Image
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am… — The Mummy Copy Share Image