A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“From "The World's Strongest Librarian who quotes Tom Clancy: The only way to do all the things you'd like to is to… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford Copy Share Image
You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in… — Avi Copy Share Image
“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the… — John Robert Lewis Copy Share Image
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“He saw with pleasure he’d been wrong. The nervous tension and vulnerability she radiated were real, but so too was the core… — Catherine LaRoche Copy Share Image
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth. — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
