"In tough times, a librarian is a terrible…" — Marilyn Johnson
"In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste."
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12 Quotes by Marilyn Johnson
Marilyn Johnson has 12 quotes on this site.
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There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who…
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Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
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They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for…
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
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We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books,…
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging…
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We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s…
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I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever…
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The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
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In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of…
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Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education…
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More Librarian Quotes
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one of 263 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
— Saul Bellow
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
— Augustine Birrell
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
— Ray Bradbury
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
— Warren Buffett
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once…
— Laura Bush
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I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was…
— John Lewis
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What can I say? Librarians rule.
— Regis Philbin
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At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and…
— Barack Obama
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed…
— Peter Straub
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The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
— Paula Poundstone
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