Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. — Patrick Ness
I'm a born librarian with a sex drive. — David Bowie
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 librarian, it is but an empty shell. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. — Melvil Dewey
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. — Kami Garcia
Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. — Tom Upton
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians". — Charles Stross
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman
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
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries. — Irving Stone
It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school. — Sarah Dessen
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. — Daniel Handler
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to these things or I don't go to them. I hate panels. I speak to librarians and to conferences of English teachers. That's what I do: teachers and librarians. And high school kids. — Sandra Cisneros
[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
I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world. — Michael Sims
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library. — Isaac Asimov
Libraries And Librarians Quotes
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. — Mark Twain
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. — E. B. White
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. — Carl T. Rowan
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
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans. — Barbara Bush
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. — Laura Bush
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. — Alan Dershowitz
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson
Public Library Quotes
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. — Keith Richards
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. — Warren Buffett
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell
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
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski
The public library is where place and possibility meet. — Stuart Dybek
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries. — Terence Cooke
The public library is the great equaliser. — Keith Richards
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Abdul Kalam
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. — Assata Shakur
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. — Charles Bukowski
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. — Jorge Luis Borges
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. — Plato
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
The real education begins in the library, it begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school. — Naval Ravikant
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
College Library Quotes
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. — Frank Zappa
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. — Ray Bradbury
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life. — Linus Pauling
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule. — Agnes De Mille
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury
I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me. — Ben Stein
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight. — Ray Bradbury
Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. — Malcolm Turnbull
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh. — John Bagot Glubb
School Library Quotes
I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked. — Steven Gundry
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. — John Waters
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. — Sachin Tendulkar
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. — Sandra Cisneros
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. — Ray Bradbury
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others! — S. R. Ranganathan
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him. — S. R. Ranganathan
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle. — Sean O'Casey
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. — Umberto Eco
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life. — Dorothea Benton Frank
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading. — Gary Paulsen
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
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. — Carl Sagan
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. — Andrew Carnegie
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 of employing wild animals as librarians. — Graham Chapman
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women. — Sayings
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. — Sidney Sheldon
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them — Anatole France
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