Librarian Quotes - Page 3

• A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

  Shelby Foote

  Educational, Book, Reading

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

  RuPaul

  Change, Naps, Tough Times

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.

  Clifford Stoll

  Dream, Children, Book

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• A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Library, Democratic, Educated

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Everyday, Library

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• Libraries are the future of reading.

  Courtney Milan

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• What can I say? Librarians rule.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, Library, Literacy

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• Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Reading, Library

  Augustine Birrell (1969). “Obiter Dicta: Second Series”, p.169, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Melvil Dewey

  Strong, Heart, Greatness

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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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• A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• 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

  Office, Democracy, Library

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• Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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  Libraries are our friends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• 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

  Teacher, Inspire, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.54, Random House

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• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

  John Lewis

  Cousin, Brother, Kings

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• I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

  Saul Bellow

  Reading, Book, People

  Saul Bellow (2016). “Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories”, p.10, Odyssey Editions

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• Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Ideas, People

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• You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

  Steven Moffat

  Book, Library, World

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• When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Naps, Tough Times

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

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• The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Book, Ideas, Historical

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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