Quotes About Children's Librarians

#1. Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

John Green

#2. Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

Peggy A. Borel

#3. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

#4. Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Spider Robinson

#5. 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

#6. One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#7. Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Richard Scarry

#8. Don't suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.

Nikki Rowe

#9. Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

John Ciardi

#10. Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

Walter Scott

#11. A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

Andy Rooney

#12. It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean De La Fontaine

#13. Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Robert Breault

#14. Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman

#15. Lord, in our work for justice, let us not seek after martyrdom for its own sake, but neither let us turn away from your truth because we fear suffering. Give us grace to live faithfully whatever the cost. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#16. Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

Brian Tracy

#17. I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Norman Lock

#18. School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

Chris Riddell

#19. Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

Mary Tyler Moore

#20. I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Andrea Seigel

#21. What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#22. But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.

Mary Gaitskill

#23. It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.

Nancy Pickard