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50 thought-provoking quotes about libraries and librarians
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You'll find below a selection of quotes devoted to places and people deserving the most attention: libraries and librarians.
Libraries are essential in a process of giving citizens access to knowledge. In digital times they are needed more than ever before.
Get your library card, and you'll be able to borrow a print or electronic book, use free internet, or attend a course that will improve your digital skills.
Most importantly, however, libraries are the places where you can expect smart and clear answers to even most difficult questions.
Neil Gaiman perfectly describes what's happening in digital times: "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one."
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In times of the internet, everyone can visit a library without leaving home. It's just a matter of opening a library website, and you can not only borrow an ebook but also ask the librarian an online question.
Where are you heading with your life? Each direction is good if there is a library along the way.
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50 best quotes about libraries and librarians
1
When in doubt go to the library.
– J.K. Rowling
One of the most famous quotes by J.K. Rowling in one of the most stunning visualizations – obviously by Risa Rodil. You can get this particular design from Redbubble, placed on many items, including wall art, apparel, iPad cases, mugs, tote bags, and even duvet covers!
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Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.
– R. David Lankes
3
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
– Stephen Fry
4
To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
– Carlos MarÃa DomÃnguez
5
When I got my library card, that's when my life began.
– Rita Mae Brown
6
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
– Ray Bradbury
7
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
– Albert Einstein
Adorably illustrated by Simini Blocker, the quote by Albert Einstein would make a great welcome poster in every library!
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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
– Anne Herbert
9
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
– Paula Poundstone
10
When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian.
– American Library Association
11
The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff.
– Timothy Healy
12
In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.
– Linton Weeks
13
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
– Saul Bellow
14
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.
– Libba Bray
15
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
– Laura Bush
16
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
– John le Carre
17
Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
– Sarah J. Maas
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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
– Norman Cousins
19
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
– Virginia Woolf
20
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.
– Sidney Sheldon
21
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
– Cornelia Funke
22
Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.
– Lauren Ward
This wonderful quote comes from Lauren Ward and is visualized beautifully by herself.
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23
Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.
– Eleanor Crumblehulme
24
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
– Frank Zappa
25
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
– Patrick Ness
26
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.
– Charles Medawar
27
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
– Lily Tomlin
28
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.
– Doris Lessing
29
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
– Jo Godwin
Good folks from Bookish Birds offer this bold quote from Jo Godwin placed on a page from a dictionary that was destined for the trash bin. A perfect gift for a library lover in your life!
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30
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
– Cornelia Funke
31
Libraries raised me.
– Ray Bradbury
32
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
33
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.
– Peter Singer
34
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
– Patrick Ness
35
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
36
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
37
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.
– Neil Gaiman
38
You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
– Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who)
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A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.
– Vicki Myron
40
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
– John Braine
41
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
– Lady Bird Johnson
42
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
– Willard Scott
43
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything.
– Peter Golkin
44
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
– Germaine Greer
45
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark… In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
– Germaine Greer
46
Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.
– Walter Savage Landor
47
Libraries are our friends.
– Neil Gaiman
48
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
– Neil Gaiman
49
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.
– Marc Brown
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50
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
– Spider Robinson
51
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
– Harold Howe
52
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
– Alan M. Dershowitz
53
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
– Shelby Foote
54
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
– Joan Bauer
55
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
– Richard Powers
56
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
– Alberto Manguel
57
What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists.
– Archibald MacLeish
58
Libraries are the future of reading.
– Courtney Milan
59
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
– Isaac Asimov
60
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Another great library poster from Bookish Birds, with the hand-lettered quote by Henry Ward Beecher.
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Do you think any of the above quotes would be perfect for the classroom or library? There are many sites where you can order your favorite quote printed on a poster, mug, t-shirt, and tons of other products.
Below, we list the sites that offer high-quality library quote designs on a large selection of items.
Etsy – it's the top destination for anyone who wants to express the love for books and libraries. The largest marketplace with hand-crafted goods offers thousands of literary quotes – on posters, jewelry, personal items, electronic accessories, and clothes.
Redbubble – a marketplace for custom-designed items, including prints, stationery, cases & covers, or t-shirts. Opposite to other sites, such as CafePress, the quality of artwork is very high.
Zazzle – the site offers a huge variety of merchandise, from clothing, to home decor, to personal accessories. What's more, users can upload their image and create a personal design. You can order your own library quote here!
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Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again. But this was not that day. He needed to eat a large bowl of the anemic stuff, and drink every drop of broth, to prevent his stomach from growling during the reaping ceremony. It was one of a long list of precautions he took to mask the fact that his family, despite residing in the penthouse of the Capitol's most opulent apartment building, was as poor as district scum. That at eighteen, the heir to the once-great house of Snow had nothing to live on but his wits.
His shirt for the reaping was worrying him. He had an acceptable pair of dark dress pants bought on the black market last year, but the shirt was what people looked at. Fortunately, the Academy provided the uniforms it required for daily use. For today's ceremony, however, students were instructed to be dressed fashionably but with the solemnity the occasion dictated. Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin's cleverness with a needle had saved him so far. Still, he couldn't expect miracles.
The shirt they'd dug from the back of the wardrobe—his father's, from better days—was stained and yellowed with age, half the buttons missing, a cigarette burn on one cuff. Too damaged to sell in even the worst of times, and this was to be his reaping shirt? This morning he had gone to her room at daybreak, only to find both his cousin and the shirt missing. Not a good sign. Had Tigris given up on the old thing and braved the black market in some last-ditch effort to find him proper clothing? And what on earth would she possess worth trading for it? Only one thing—herself—and the house of Snow had not yet fallen that far. Or was it falling now as he salted the cabbage?
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