Librarian Quotes
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I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
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Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.
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I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.
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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
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The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
