Quotes About School Librarians

#1. 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

#2. Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Ben Carson

#3. Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#4. My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

Shawn Stewart Ruff

#5. It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#6. The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Jeffrey Kluger

#7. Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

Stephen D. Krashen

#9. The family as subversive of true socialistic and communal unity is to be annihilated." Yes, President, I agree completely with Article 5. A family is a terrible incumbrance, especially when one is not married.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.

Maureen Corrigan

#11. I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.

Scott Douglas

#12. When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either "You're joking, right?" or "They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

Scott Douglas

#13. When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there.

LaVell Edwards

#14. Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

#15. The physical space serves as an intellectual gymnasium with multiple, flexible spaces that accommodate a variety of learning tasks.

American Association Of School Librarians

#16. Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

John Green

#17. My thighs are normal as far as their appearance, and extraordinary in regards to the feats they have conquered.

Jenn Sadai

#18. Majority rule must stop at our unalienable rights. Without that, pure democratic rule is a terrible thing. It's like two wolves and a lamb voting to see what's for dinner.

LaVoy Finicum