Librarian Quotes - Page 10

• I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

  Libba Bray

  Oracles

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• Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Nightmares, Badges, Nightmare

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Dark, Eyeglasses

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

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• I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

  David McCullough

  Kindness, Writing, Curiosity

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Opportunity, Speak, I Can

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• Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Teacher, Romance, Missions

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• It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Internals, Saved

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

  Sam Abell

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Angel, Rumor, Devil

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Book, Reading, School

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• The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Mind, Library, Needs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Book, Giving, Library

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• 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

  Running, Teacher, School

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.100, Penguin

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• Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Humble, Unique

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

  Peter Ackroyd

  Smell, Clothes, Creating

  1987 Chatterton, ch.5.

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• The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Book, Library, Should

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• ...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

  Stephen King

  Knowing, Library, Sitting

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Eye, Wizards

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.229, Random House

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• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  Asa Larsson

  Children, Father, Book

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• There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

  Garth Nix

  Party, Special, Dangerous

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.44, Hot Key Books

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• Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because they have wonderful ideas about how to share books, and especially about how to share my books with kids.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

  Audre Lorde

  Rest In Peace, Children, Reading

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