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“While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

“My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.”

Kind Children Facts Stories Remember Mother Audience Modern Originals Traditional Indian Bores Remember When Acquaintance Librarian Nodding

Author:Patricia Briggs

“Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.”

Convince Librarian Notorious Snitch

Book:Fading Away

Source: Fading Away

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

Ifs Inspirational Motivational Family Television Internet Drunk Shut Up Librarian Babysitter

Author:Dorothy Gambrell

“At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.”

Heart Bird Monk Librarian Gardener Watchers Spinsters

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.”

Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”

Librarian Triumphant Militant Militancy

Author:Melvil Dewey

“The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.”

Facts Stories Bigs America Names Wish Behinds Truth Is Patriotic Grandfather Librarian My Grandfather

Author:America Ferrera

“My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.”

Mother Father New York Librarian Tenors Norwegians

Author:David Johansen