Librarian Quotes - Page 13

• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  Bette Midler

  Teacher, Sibling, Independent

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• I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Working With Children

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

  Carla Hayden

  Dream, Congress

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

  Patrick Ness

  Giving, Useless, World

  "Patrick Ness accepts Carnegie medal with fierce defence of libraries". Patrick Ness' acceptance speech at the Carnegie Medal, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

  Patrick Carman

  Library, Walks

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• So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, Book, Awards

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.2399, Macmillan

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• There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

  Patrick Carman

  Mouths, Potty, Potty Mouth

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• I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

  Peter Cameron

  Ideas, People, World

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

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• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Reading, Light

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012

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• Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

  Tina Fey

  Character, World, Comedy

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Dust, House

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• Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

  Lady Gaga

  Culture, Loyal, Obsession

  "Lady Gaga With Three Heads Covers V Magazine, First Fashion Column Inside" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Home, Names

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• Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

  Patrick Ness

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.

  Bill Ayers

  Teacher, Brother, Children

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

  Maya Angelou

  Determination, Heart, Delight

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• After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Together, Purpose

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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• I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you've got a choice. If you don't want it, just don't buy it. It's also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files. A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I'm sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever. As much as I love the whole pirate kind of thing, the quality suffers.

  Bjork

  Mean, Thinking, Pirate

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• The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.

  Daniel Olivas

  Support, Political, Important

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• 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

  Teacher, Hate, Kids

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Kids, Going Out

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his hands." I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Talking, Eyebrows, Said

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