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#librarians

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #librarians




There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for. ↗


— Scott Douglas


#library #library-books #quiet-please #change

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. ↗


— Avi Steinberg


#reading #librarians

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 ↗


— Trenton Lee Stewart


#librarians #library #freedom

He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marriage to a librarian, this very handsome concession on Mr Fawnhope's part merely added to her despondency. ↗


— Georgette Heyer


#librarians #imagination

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians ↗


— Patrick Ness


#librarians #thoughtful #inspirational

Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'... ↗


— Jasper Fforde


#librarians #life

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description. ↗


— Scott Douglas


#library #quiet-please #description

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. ↗


— Erma Bombeck


#librarians

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about. ↗


— Gary D. Schmidt


#librarians






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