Librarians Quotes
116 Librarians quotes by 89 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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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 founding values.
— Jim Hightower
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While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.
— Tom Upton
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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
— Peter Shaffer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
— Michael Moore
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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
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
— Ann Richards
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It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a…
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
— Beverly Cleary
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You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy…
— Graham Chapman
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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown;…
— Terry Pratchett
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Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate…
— Garrison Keillor
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Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
— Barbara Pym
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