Quotes on Librarian

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

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.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

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.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.