50 thought-provoking quotes about libraries and librarians

50 thought-provoking quotes about

libraries and librarians

PIOTR KOWALCZYK

UPDATED ON SEP 11, 2014
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Youll find below a selection of quotes devoted to places and people deserving
most attention: libraries and librarians.
Libraries are essential in a process of giving citizens access to knowledge. In digital
times they are needed more than ever before.
Get your library card, and youll be able to borrow a print or electronic book, use free
internet, or attend a course improving your digital skills.
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Most importantly, however, libraries are the places where you can expect smart and
clear answers to even most difficult questions. As Neil Gaiman says: Google can bring
you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.
In times of the internet, everyone can visit a library without leaving home. Its just a
matter of opening a librarys website, and you can not only borrow an ebook, but also
ask the librarian an online question.
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50 quotes about libraries and librarians

An original idea. That cant be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
To build up a library is to create a life. Its never just a random collection
of books.
Carlos Mara Domnguez
When I got my library card, thats when my life began.
Rita Mae Brown
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will
get you through times of no libraries.
Anne Herbert
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech,
controversy and community.
Paula Poundstone
When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian.
American Library Association

The most important asset of any library goes home at night the library
staff.
Timothy Healy
In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us to swim.
Linton Weeks
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
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

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
Laura Bush
Im really a library man, or second-hand book man.
John le Carre
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history
comes to life.
Norman Cousins

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
Virginia Woolf
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.
Sidney Sheldon
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken
home by all different sorts of kids.
Cornelia Funke
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a
plague.
Eleanor Crumblehulme
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the
library.
Frank Zappa
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Patrick Ness
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly
knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and
largely underemployed.
Charles Medawar

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates.
It is the most democratic of institutions because no one but no one at
all can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Cornelia Funke

Libraries raised me.
Ray Bradbury
Everything you need for better future and success has already been
written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we
should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public
library.
Peter Singer

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Patrick Ness
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the
answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a
library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the
wheel.
Bjarne Stroustrup
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.
Lemony Snicket

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you
back the right one.
Neil Gaiman
A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and
always has what people need.
Vicki Myron
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
John Braine
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town
library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful
people. They are teachers without a classroom.
Willard Scott

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move
people forward without wasting anything.
Peter Golkin
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing
your virginity.
Germaine Greer
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order,
calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light
nor dark. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious,
still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer

Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.
Walter Savage Landor
Libraries are our friends.
Neil Gaiman
Rule number one: Dont fuck with librarians.
Neil Gaiman
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information.
Dont ever piss one off.
Spider Robinson
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about
education.
Harold Howe
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach
you.
Alan M. Dershowitz
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Shelby Foote

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
Joan Bauer
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Richard Powers
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
Alberto Manguel
What is more important in a library than anything else than everything
else is the fact that it exists.
Archibald MacLeish

Libraries are the future of reading.
Courtney Milan