#librarian

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. ↗

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

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

#around #behalf #crosses #every #fearsome

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#race #tedious #tend

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. ↗

— Peter Straub

#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#political

She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time. (p. 24) ↗

— Keith Gray

#librarian #teacher #teens #humor

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

— Spider Robinson

#librarians #humor

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #librarians #humor

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#story #change