Librarian Quotes

263 Librarian quotes by 196 unique authors

Libraries are the future of reading. — Courtney Milan
When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in… — Marijane Meaker
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being… — Gary Shteyngart
I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones. — Edward Gorey
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need. — Judy Blume
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian
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
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. — Ken Jennings
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble;… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a… — Dorothea Benton Frank
I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian. — Lady Gaga
I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK. — danah boyd
In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste. — Marilyn Johnson
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. — Marilyn Johnson
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and… — Marilyn Johnson
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that… — Marilyn Johnson
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into… — Melvil Dewey
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge,… — Marilyn Johnson
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the… — Marilyn Johnson
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show… — Peter Morville
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that… — Robertson Davies
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend… — Norman Mailer
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe

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