Top 719 Libraries And Librarians Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

'The Librarians' fills a vacuum, providing true family programming for TNT.

Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

God bless the Reference Librarians

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

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.

Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.