Librarian Quotes - Page 6

• But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

  Richard Peck

  Moving, Two, Together

  Richard Peck (2006). “Here lies the librarian”

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• If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Inspiración, motivación, familia

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• Un primatólogo me dijo que se puede encontrar amor en los ojos de un orangután. Es ese viejo brillo de los primates que se remonta a miles de años y puede penetrar en la más profunda penumbra de la selva. Nada puede disuadir ese brillo, por eso los primates hemos sobrevivido tanto tiempo para encontrarnos y procrear. En la cárcel, la supervivencia del romanticismo no es fácil, pero encuentra un camino... En Canadá se han sucedido los romances entre presos y mujeres guardias, enfermeras, bibliotecarias y una monja católica que se casó con el recluso después de que éste se divorciara de su mujer.

  Shawn Thompson

  Ojo, Años, Enfermera

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• Agradecimientos Con agradecimiento a los tres proselitistas de la palabra escrita menos apreciados y más trabajadores: las librerías independientes, los bibliotecarios y los profesores.

  Gail Carriger

  Profesor, Agradecido, Independiente

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Library, Comfort

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• En su opinión, una de las funciones del bibliotecario era atenuar estas diferencias y proporcionar un medio para que ricos y pobres pudieran convivir felizmente. La biblioteca pública era un gran nivelador, que proporcionaba una literatura mediante la cual el hombre ordinario podía experimentar algunos de los placeres de los ricos, y proporcionaba un terreno común donde el empleador y el empleado podían reunirse en igualdad de condiciones.

  Lewis Henry Steiner

  Media, Hombres, Diferencias

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• Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Hands

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

  Alberto Manguel

  Dream, Engineering, Law

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.10, Vintage Canada

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

  Lady Gaga

  Reality, Way, Fantasy

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• Los niños saben que si tienen una pregunta sobre el mundo, la biblioteca es el lugar donde encontrar la respuesta. Y siempre habrá alguien ahí para ayudarles a encontrar la respuesta: nuestros bibliotecarios. (El trabajo de un bibliotecario es importante. Nuestra nación funciona con el combustible de la información y la imaginación que proporcionan las bibliotecas. Y ellas son las encargadas de recopilar y compartir esta información de forma útil. Los bibliotecarios informan al público y, al hacerlo, fortalecen nuestra gran democracia.

  Laura Bush

  Running, Jobs, Children

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• It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

  Jim Hightower

  Country, Fighting, Civilization

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• All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

  Beverly Cleary

  Valioso

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• Las bibliotecas fomentan el intercambio de conocimientos y ponen en contacto a personas de todas las edades con valiosos recursos de información. Estas instituciones dinámicas y modernas, y los bibliotecarios que trabajan en ellas, contribuyen enormemente a nuestra calidad de vida.

  George W. Bush

  People, Age, Library

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• Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

  Arthur Ashe

  Wall, School, Library

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• I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Reading, Kids, Bored

  "Movie Executive Harvey Weinstein". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 28, 2011.

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• What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Giving, Library, Quality

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• I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.

  Lynne Stewart

  Jobs, Queens, Children

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Book, Men, Watches

  1941 A Time to Speak,'Of the Librarian's Profession'.

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• No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

  John Alfred Langford

  Book, Writing, Library

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• I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

  David Bowie

  Sex, Born, Sex Drive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

  Robertson Davies

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

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• [My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "Jenna Bush: 'Estoy viviendo el trabajo de mis sueños'". Entrevista en TODAY, www.today.com. 22 de abril de 2008.

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• The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.

  Julie Andrews

  Profesor, Niños, Personas

  "Interview: Julie Andrews Reflects on Writing, Reading, Libraries, and Film". Interview with Leonard Kniffel, americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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• 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

  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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