Quotes about libraries and librarians

Quotes about Libraries and Librarians

• In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

• –Linton Weeks

• Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.

• –Charles Medawar•

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

• –Laura Bush

• Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.

• –Neil Gaiman

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

• –Willard Scott

• My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything.

• –Peter Golkin

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

• –Spider Robinson

• A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

• –Alan M. Dershowitz

• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

• –Richard Powers

• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

• –Lemony Snicket