Librarians Quotes

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

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

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