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What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~ Archibald MacLeish
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Archibald MacLeish
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
Libraries And Librarians quotes by John Jakes
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury. ~ Kami Garcia
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Kami Garcia
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
~ Richard Armour
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Richard Armour
My alma mater was books, a good library ... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ~ Malcolm X
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Malcolm X
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history ~ Carl T. Rowan
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Carl T. Rowan
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
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Norman Cousins
A great library contains the diary of the human race. ~ George Mercer Dawson
Libraries And Librarians quotes by George Mercer Dawson
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ~ Heraclitus
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Heraclitus
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Peter Singer
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ~ John F. Kennedy
Libraries And Librarians quotes by John F. Kennedy
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. ~ Spider Robinson
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Spider Robinson
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. ~ Rita Mae Brown
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Rita Mae Brown
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it - ~ John Palfrey
Libraries And Librarians quotes by John Palfrey
I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them. ~ Candida Hofer
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Candida Hofer
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. ~ Terry Pratchett
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Terry Pratchett
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone. ~ Richard Armour
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Richard Armour
I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic. ~ Scott Douglas
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Scott Douglas
There are two kinds of teachers in the world: there are teachers who play school and teachers who teach school, and Miss Daggerty and Mrs. Sera and especially Mrs. Gosk are the kinds of teachers that teach school. They talk to their kids in their regular voices and say things that they would say in their own living rooms. Their bulletin boards are always a little raggedy, and their desks are always a little messy, and their libraries are always a little out of order, but kids love them because they talk about real things with real voices and they always tell the truth. This is why Max loves Mrs. Gosk. She never pretends to be a teacher. She is just herself, and it makes Max relax a little. There is nothing to figure out. ~ Matthew Dicks
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Matthew Dicks
Do you know that besides our Tania, I don't know any other women who work outside the home?"
The women at the table seconded with murmurs. The men glanced at Alexander and then at their dirty forks. Tatiana stared at Alexander sitting across from her, and he gave her a look that said, You want to handle this one?
All right, Shura, I'll handle it. "Well, Karen," said Tatiana, putting down her fork and folding her hands, "I know I'm not the only nurse in my hospital. There are 194 other nurses, all women. And Anthony's teachers - all women. The librarians - women. Oh, and the tall ladies selling you makeup at the cosmetics counter at Macy's, women, too. Maybe," Tatiana said, "you don't know any women working outside the home, because they're too busy working. ~ Paullina Simons
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Paullina Simons
To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books. ~ Leona Rostenberg
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Leona Rostenberg
The library was ... scattered with odd cushions and strange padded built-in furniture added a few years ago to placate the rioting students of the time, who could never seem to make up their minds whether they were angriest about Viet Nam, about being made to learn a foreign language, or about being made to sit at a hard wooden desk while they did it. The College, being unable to do anything about Viet Nam and unwilling to do anything about the foreign language requirement, had reformed the furniture in the library. ~ Pamela Dean
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Pamela Dean
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch, and the same blow shall send the white to his grave.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload h ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
She came from the Institute of Sexy Librarians and Secretaries. It's that place in man-heaven where all you babes in tight skirts and glasses with your hair pulled up are born. ~ Anna Bishop Barker
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Anna Bishop Barker
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while ... and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process. ~ Jodi Picoult
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Jodi Picoult
A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa. ~ James Cook
Libraries And Librarians quotes by James Cook
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product ... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night? ~ Humphrey Bogart
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Humphrey Bogart
If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books. ~ Tessa Jowell
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Tessa Jowell
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] ~ Neil Gaiman
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Neil Gaiman
But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book budget had been slashed and the hours cut. Her parents had made a lot of mistakes, a fact Tess compulsively shared on first dates, but she gave them credit for doing one thing right: Starting when she was eight, they gave her a library card and dropped her off at the downtown Pratt every Saturday while they shopped. Twenty-one years later, Tess still entered through the children's entrance on the side, pausing to toss a penny in the algae-coated fish pond, then climbing the stairs to the main hall. If she could be married here, she would. ~ Laura Lippman
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Laura Lippman
It is odd, isn't it? Whenever I read something interesting, I tear out a piece and keep it as a talisman until I find something new to replace it with. It's a sort of superstition. I did it once and it helped me break out of writer's block, so I've done it ever since. Librarians must hate me. ~ Mohsin Hamid
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Mohsin Hamid
The moths were fluttering all over the sign at the desk that read DASHIELL QWERTY, SUB-LIBRARIAN. He was younger than I think of librarians as being, younger than the father of anyone I knew, and he had the hairstyle one gets if one is attacked by a scissors-carrying maniac and lives to tell the tale. ~ Lemony Snicket
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Lemony Snicket
But who's ever safe? Down below us are the kind of people who walk armed into churches and movie theaters and through libraries, blast fevers into federal buildings, and build bombs out of things they bought cheap at a hardware store. What kind of myth is it, that people like them are keeping the rest of us safe? ~ Maria Dahvana Headley
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Maria Dahvana Headley
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper. ~ Polly Horvath
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Polly Horvath
No 'jump into a book' wasnt meant literally, and Yes, you are now banned from the Ferndale library. ~ Librarians For Social Change
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Librarians For Social Change
The cab took them past other libraries and townhouses, then the redbrick walls of Keble College with their zigzag patterns, which looked ridiculous and spoke, Grace suspected, of the general unavailability of proper Cotswolds sandstone. ~ Natasha Pulley
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Natasha Pulley
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away ... ~ Emily Dickinson
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Emily Dickinson
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. ~ William S. Burroughs
Libraries And Librarians quotes by William S. Burroughs
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. ~ Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon. ~ Michael Scott
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Michael Scott
Most people don't understand what a library does for me and I've tried to explain it to them. All I know is that I feel energized when I'm in one. My pulse quickens when I walk through the the stacks. I feel like an explorer surveying an uncharted shore. Lost worlds are here waiting to be discovered. Ancient worlds; once glorious, not crumbled. Future worlds; no more substantial than the numbers or ideas or words of those who dream them. Mythical worlds. Worlds of limitless dimensions.
Libraries are medieval forests masking opportunity and danger; every aisle is a path, every catalog reference a clue to the location of the Holy Grail. ~ Jack Cavanaugh
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Jack Cavanaugh
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. ~ Nancy Pearl
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Nancy Pearl
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be. The ~ Terry Pratchett
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Terry Pratchett
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually. ~ James A. Michener
Libraries And Librarians quotes by James A. Michener
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books. ~ Alberto Manguel
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Alberto Manguel
My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian
the man in charge of the University's entire collection
is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact. ~ Martha Cooley
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Martha Cooley
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries. ~ Russell Baker
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Russell Baker
Early reading is serendipitous, and rightly so. Gloriously so. Libraries favor serendipity, invite it; the roaming along a shelf, eyeing an unfamiliar name, taking this down, then that--oh, who's this? Never heard of her--give her a go? That is where, and how, you learn affinity and rejection. You find out what you like by exploring what you do not. ~ Penelope Lively
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Penelope Lively
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars ~ Holless Wilbur Allen
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Holless Wilbur Allen
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another - thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations. ~ Jeremy Narby
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Jeremy Narby
We now have in our hands - really, in our libraries - the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years. ~ Julian Simon
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Julian Simon
A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth. ~ Patricia A. McKillip
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Patricia A. McKillip
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention. ~ Carrie Jones
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Carrie Jones
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor ... Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. ~ Wendy Beckett
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Wendy Beckett
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. ~ Christopher Smart
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Christopher Smart
NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by the libraries on UNC's 16 campuses. It will allow unprecedented collaboration and sharing of resources among sister UNC institutions, the community colleges, and the state's public libraries. ~ Molly Corbett Broad
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Molly Corbett Broad
In the library
I search for a good book.
We have many books,
says Mrs. Rose, the librarian,
and ALL of them are good.
Of course she says that. It's her job.
But do I want to read about
Trucks
Trains and
Transport?
Or even
Horses
Houses and
Hyenas?

In the fiction corner
there are pink boks
full of princesses
and girls who want to be princesses
and black books
about bad boys
and brave boys
and brawny boys.

Where is the book
about a girl
whose poems don't rhyme
and whose Granny is fading?
Pearl, says Mrs. Rose, the bell has rung.

I go back to class
empty-handed
empty headed
empty-hearted. ~ Sally Murphy
Libraries And Librarians quotes by Sally Murphy
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