Fire Department Quotes

• It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

  Thom Filicia

  Party, Fire, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fire, House, Looks

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

  Andy Grove

  Team, Fire, Events

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• It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Perfectly Normal, Ordinary

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Independent

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• I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

  Michael Bay

  Fire, Littles, Firsts

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

  Michael Schur

  Free Education, Fire, People

  "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2011.

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• In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Writing, Garden, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.164, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

  Lady Gaga

  Fire, Chicago, Today

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Aug 03, 2015

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• We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.

  Kate O'Beirne

  Strong, Hero, Men

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• You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Fire, Water

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• Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.

  Jim McDonough

  Military, War, Fire

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• Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Fire, Police

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• Baby boy, go hire a squadron
  My crib got more poles than a fire department.

  Cam'ron

  Baby, Boys, Fire

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• New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.

  Bill Maher

  Sorry, Rain, Fire

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 17, 2006.

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• The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

  Justin Davidson

  Fire, Priorities, Burning Down

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• This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

  Christopher Moore

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

  Bobby Scott

  Fire, Volunteer, Department

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• I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

  Dolly Parton

  Fire, Complaining, Four

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010

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• Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

  Denis Leary

  Jobs, New York, Fire

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• Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

  Denis Leary

  Fire, America, People

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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