Librarians Quotes

116 Librarians quotes by 89 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. — Tom Upton
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. — Peter Shaffer
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 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
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 real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. — Ann Richards
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
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. — Beverly Cleary
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
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
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
Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink. — Barbara Pym

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