Quote of the Day

"In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed."
- Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline

Quote of the Day

"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft, and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead."
- Caitlin Moran

Quote of the Day

"People will kill you over time. And how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'"
- Dylan Moran

Quote of the Day

"'Is the spring coming?' he said. 'What is it like?'...
'It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...'"
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Quote of the Day

"You are called to care for creation not only as responsible citizens, but also as followers of Christ!"
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize."
- Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

Quote of the Day

"There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food."
- Ron Swanson, Parks & Recreation 6.12

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"She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called...bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and don't even know about the ground, and once you know the world is full of things like that, your life is never the same."
- Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy (via)

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"Rule number one: Don't f--- with librarians."
- Neil Gaiman

Quote of the Day

"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
- Susan Sontag

Quote of the Day

"Rapper Nelly was arrested Saturday night in Putnam County, Tennessee, on multiple drug charges. The arrest is likely unsurprising to anyone who has ever heard a single Nelly song."
- Stassa Edwards (via)

Quote of the Day

"A person can become a saint anywhere...At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with resolution, enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence."
- St. Porphyrios

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"All she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators."
- Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Quote of the Day

"I diagnosed brain overload and set up a spreadsheet to analyze the situation."
- Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

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"Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up."
- Barbara Kingsolver

Quote of the Day

"I can say I'll hope it will be worth what I give up
If I could stand up mean for the things that I believe"
- Santigold, "L.E.S. Artistes"

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"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."
- Monty Python

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"If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by."
- F. Burton Howard

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"The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white host."
- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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"The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ."
- James E. Talmage

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"While Catholics usually paint the Savior suffering, Mormon artists tend to depict Him as a rugged Idaho mountain man –- the kind of Jesus you wouldn’t mind dating. In this particular picture he was healing a blonde child, because blondes were big in Jerusalem in 33 A.D."
- Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

Quote of the Day

"It never ceases to amaze me that there's this person who travels around and does all these things. And it's me. It doesn't seem like me at all."
- Jane Goodall

Quote of the Day

"My job is to inform, not to convince."
- Saint Bernadette