Firefighter Quotes

• Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

  Carl Levin

  Jobs, Men, Safety

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• Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

  Christopher Dodd

  Home, Feet, Soldier

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• Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

  Jack Scalia

  Baby, Defense, Lines

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• I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.247, Dial Press

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, True Courage, Gulf War

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

  Denis Leary

  Encounters, Selfless, Servant

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• 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

  Military, People, Stranger

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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

  James McGreevey

  Years, Police, Way

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• My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

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• If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Men, Fire, Wrath

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• The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Men, Fireman

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Fleeing, Knows, Felt

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

  Thomas Carper

  Effort, Safe, Delaware

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

  Elle Macpherson

  Ballet, Study, Wanted

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• I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

  Ethel Waters

  Inspirational, Teenager, People

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Style, Experience, Bigs

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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

  Charles Simic

  Poetry, Enough, Blanket

  Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller

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• 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

  Stars, Want, Pops

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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

  Sports, Parent, Different

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  Ted Lindsay

  Hurt, Player, Games

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• 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

  Fighting, Sky, Tanks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

  Luke Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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