Firefighter quotes
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
-- Adam Arkin -
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
-- Adam Baldwin -
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
-- Alfred Marshall -
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
-- Andy Rooney -
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.
-- Anthony Anderson -
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
-- Art Buchwald -
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources
-- Barbara Mikulski -
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
-- Barry Commoner -
I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
-- Barry Pepper -
Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club
-- Bobby Gould -
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
-- Bobby Seale -
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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
-- Boris Becker -
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
-- Brad Bird -
If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
-- Bryan Ferry -
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
-- Charles Simic -
Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
-- Christopher Dodd -
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
-- Dan Lipinski -
Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.
-- David Cameron -
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
-- David Friedman -
What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'
-- Denis Leary -
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In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.
-- Denis Leary -
It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.
-- Denis Leary -
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.
-- Denis Leary -
Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
-- Dick York -
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It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.
-- Elizabeth Warren -
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
-- Elle Macpherson -
I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.
-- GG Allin -
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In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
-- Ginger Baker -
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
-- Hugh Shelton -
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
-- Ira Hayes -
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
-- Jack Scalia -
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Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.
-- James McGreevey -
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
-- Jilly Cooper -
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
-- John Burroughs -
I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
-- Josh Holloway -
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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
-- Ken Burns -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.
-- Ken Salazar -
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
-- Leslie Fiedler -
I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
-- Linda Lavin -
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I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
-- Lynn Westmoreland -
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
-- Mark Sanchez -
Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.
-- Marlo Thomas -
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
-- Mary Cassatt -
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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
-- Michelle Shocked -
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.
-- Mickey Spillane -
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
-- Namie Amuro -
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
-- Nina Simone -
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf -
The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.
-- Paul Sloane -
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
-- Peter Berg -
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
-- Peter Tork -
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Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
-- Randy Bachman -
It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
-- Richard Donner -
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
-- Robert Wyatt -
Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
-- Sam Mendes -
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I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
-- Stacy Keach -
Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
-- Taylor Kinney -
Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.
-- Thomas Carper -
I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women particularly poor women having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.
-- Warren Farrell -
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I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
-- Yancy Butler -
There were a lot of people in our nationalist group who went on to become cops and firefighters and correctional officers. Unfortunately so. I haven't talked to them in 20 years, but just by keeping tabs on Facebook I know that there are some who've gone that way. And they've never indicated publicly that they've changed their opinions. It's a minority.
-- Christian Picciolini -
It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.
-- Jake T. Austin -
No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.
-- Raymond Kelly -
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There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.
-- Kate Thornton
