Librarian Quotes - Page 6

• But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

  Richard Peck

  Moving, Two, Together

  Richard Peck (2006). “Here lies the librarian”

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• If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

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• Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

  Gail Carriger

  Teacher, Grateful, Independent

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Library, Comfort

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• One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.

  Lewis Henry Steiner

  Mean, Men, Differences

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• Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Hands

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

  Alberto Manguel

  Dream, Engineering, Law

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.10, Vintage Canada

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• I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

  Lady Gaga

  Reality, Way, Fantasy

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• Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer-our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy.

  Laura Bush

  Running, Jobs, Children

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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

  Country, Fighting, Civilization

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• All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

  Beverly Cleary

  Valuable

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• Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.

  George W. Bush

  People, Age, Library

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• Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

  Arthur Ashe

  Wall, School, Library

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• I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Reading, Kids, Bored

  "Movie Executive Harvey Weinstein". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 28, 2011.

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• What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Giving, Library, Quality

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• I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.

  Lynne Stewart

  Jobs, Queens, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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 watch upon the world and on themselves.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Book, Men, Watches

  1941 A Time to Speak,'Of the Librarian's Profession'.

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• No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

  John Alfred Langford

  Book, Writing, Library

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• I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

  David Bowie

  Sex, Born, Sex Drive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

  Robertson Davies

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

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• [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 children and children's literature.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.

  Julie Andrews

  Teacher, Children, People

  "Interview: Julie Andrews Reflects on Writing, Reading, Libraries, and Film". Interview with Leonard Kniffel, americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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