Librarian Quotes

That's the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. (Philip Pullman)
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. View quote
Melvil Dewey
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. View quote
Beverly Cleary
The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup." View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize. View quote
Libba Bray
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. View quote
Erma Bombeck
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. View quote
Peter Straub
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. View quote
Rick Riordan
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. View quote
Simon Van Booy
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery. (Karen Joy Fowler)
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. View quote
Margaret Mahy
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. View quote
Melvil Dewey
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him. View quote
Asa Larsson
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on. View quote
James Mangold
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. View quote
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. View quote
Justin Winsor
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind. View quote
Patricia Briggs
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. View quote
Paulina Porizkova
The aristocratic and the modern were inextricably combined in Joseph Schumpeter. The paradoxes of this great economist, who also served as minister of finance in the post-World War I government of Austria, are suggested by the fact that at his first teaching post, he challenged the university librarian to a duel to win freer access to books for the students. Perhaps Schumpeter was attracted to the big issues because he himself witnessed drastic changes in society. View quote
Samuel Bowles
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. (Barbara Kingsolver)
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. View quote
Umberto Eco
I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done. View quote
Mick Jagger
He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. View quote
Joss Whedon
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. View quote
Rita Dove