Top 50 Chris Grabenstein Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Open a Book and Open Your Mind.”

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2. “Knowledge not shared remains unknown.”

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3. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

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4. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

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5. “If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?”

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6. “Sometimes knowing how to find the answers and what questions to ask are more important than the answers themselves.” – Mr. Lemoncello.”

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7. “Mr. Lemoncello bounced across the stage like a happy grasshopper.”

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8. “This is why I like real librarians. They’re search engines with a heart” -Miguel.”

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9. “A library doesn’t need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.”

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10. “A library is an arsenal of liberty.”

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11. “An open book is an open mind” -Charles Chiltington.”

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12. “Playing off the NCAA basketball tournament’s “March Madness” theme, Mr. Lemoncello declared the first Saturday in March “Library Lunacy Day.”

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13. “You needed a good roll of the dice, a lucky draw of the cards, and some smarts, but if things went your way and you gave it your all, anyone could win.”

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14. “Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.”

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15. “Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful – a word I recently invented – a library can be. This is their chance to discover that a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow!” -Mr. Lemoncello.”

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16. “Actually, it’s a new word – one I invented and wrote down with my frindle!”

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17. “Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas.”

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18. “I have found that sometimes in the quest for knowledge, you must go backward before you can move forward” -Abia.”

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19. “They reminded Kyle of a Greek god and goddess straight out of the Percy Jackson books. “Wow,” said Miguel. “Do you think Rick Riordan’s going to be here? That would be so awesome!”

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20. “Tried to assess the situation.”

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21. “Because if something is fun, more of it gets done!” -Luigi Lemoncello.”

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22. “Who knows, Walter? Maybe I can.”

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23. “And for the first time in his life, Kyle Keeley wanted to check out a library book more than anything in the world.”

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24. “As much as I love teamwork, for this game, you all need to fly solo, like Han in Star Wars, although he always had Chewbacca in the copilot seat. But that is neither here nor there, because it is in a galaxy far, far away. Play on, Olympians.”

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25. “And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

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26. “Haley remembered another bit of Irish wisdom, something her dad said all the time: “Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot!” She.”

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27. “Curses and foul language!”

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28. “I am feeling sad and blue. I need to see some books! Books make me happy.”

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29. “Because, like Sherlock says to Dr. Watson, ’it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”

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30. “She won the four-horse chariot race in 396 BC and again in 392 BC in what we call the ancient Olympic Games.”

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31. “Kyle was busy helping Holmes figure out that the Red-Headed League was just a clever ploy pulled by some robbers to get a red-haired pawnbroker to leave his shop long enough for them to dig a tunnel from his basement to the bank next door when the librarian’s voice jolted him out of London and brought.”

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32. “Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.”

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33. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.’ – Groucho Marx.”

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34. “Whoa,” said Akimi. “Check out the statues. They’re hardly wearing any clothes.”

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35. “Billy’s dad. His mom shrugged. “Maybe, maybe not. Just relax, sweetheart. Lighten up. Go with the flow.”

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36. “Kyle still had a shot. A long shot, but, hey, sometimes the.”

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37. “Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. The holographic image of Mrs. Tobin was there, smiling patiently, as Peckleman pulled some kind of magazine out of the box. Miguel was also near.”

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38. “Yo, Kyle,” said Miguel. “Exactly how many board games have you played?” “Enough to know that you don’t ever quit until somebody else actually wins.”

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39. “The future belongs to the puzzle solvers.”

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40. “Tonight, we light the symbolic flashlight of under-the-covers reading to celebrate those page-turners we can never put down, even on a school night. I am assured that our Olympic torch will never reach a temperature of Fahrenheit four fifty-one, something the Lorax, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe were all quite happy to hear.”

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41. “I’m categorizing them according to attraction type,” said Marjory. “Outdoor activities, historical sites, shopping opportunities – subcategorized, of course, into fashion, antiques, and souvenirs.” “Of course,” said Andrew. “And, over here, you’ll find dining options.” Andrew smiled. “Isn’t informational organization awesome?” “Yes,” said Marjory. “It’s certainly more intellectually stimulating than video games.”

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42. “But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.”

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43. “Hey, Kyle – when you’re playing a game like Sorry and you get bumped back three spaces, do you usually quit?” “No. If I get bumped, I play harder because I know I need to find a way to get back those three spaces and pull ahead of the pack.”

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44. “And maybe,” said Marjory, “we can find a few 641.8653 to go with it.” “Ooh,” said Andrew. “I love doughnuts.”

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45. “And there’s no place I’d rather be on my big day than inside a library, surrounded by books. Unless, of course, I could be on a bridge to Terabithia.”

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46. “Warmly, because my air conditioner is broken, Luigi L. Lemoncello.”

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47. “That’s what engineering is all about, folks. Turning dreams into reality!”

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48. “The past tense of “921 is.”

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49. “In the same way that it makes sense for the airport security screeners to give my father extra scrutiny every time he flies because his skin is brown and his first name is Muhammad?”

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50. “My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read’.”

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