Firefighter Quotes

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

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

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.

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.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

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.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

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.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

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."

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

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.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.

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.

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.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

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.

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

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.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

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.

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.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.