Librarian Quotes

263 Librarian quotes by 196 unique authors

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather… — America Ferrera
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. — David Johansen
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me… — Ray Bradbury
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books. — Guy Browning
Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when… — Patrick Ness
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and… — William Osler
My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung. — Nick Offerman
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's… — Archibald MacLeish
[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves… — Jenna Bush
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us… — Edward Gibbon
Libraries are where it all begins. — Rita Dove
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the… — Umberto Eco
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. — Lady Bird Johnson
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew… — Barbara Kingsolver
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and… — Anne Lamott
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no… — Doris Lessing
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though.… — Ian MacKaye
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. — Michael Moore
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians,… — Michael Morpurgo
I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read. — Shimon Peres

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