Librarian Quotes

• Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

  Patrick Ness

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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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 same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Player, Essentials, Levels

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Reading

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

  Barack Obama

  Children, Forever, Magic

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• A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Book, Jewels, Library

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• Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?

  Holly Black

  Book, Reading, Knowledge And Power

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• Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

  Spider Robinson

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

  Paulina Porizkova

  Thinking, My Boyfriend, Calling

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• When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Writing, Range

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• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Aggravation, Library

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• The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

  Melvil Dewey

  Triumphant, Militancy, Militant

  "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.

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• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Education, Sex

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• My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

  Joseph Howe

  Book, Library, World

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• A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

  Justin Winsor

  Book, Power, Soul

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• As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Book, School

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• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Change, Wise

  "Now super-rich face a backlash as credit crunch hits home in America" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

  Peter Straub

  Travel, Book, Adventure

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• I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

  Shimon Peres

  Mother, Brother, Taste

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

  Nora Roberts

  Naps, Tough Times, Chocolate

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