Fireman Quotes

• The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

  Ernie Pyle

  Fire, Flames, Break Out

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

  John Dillinger

  People, Stealing, Farmers

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

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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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• In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

  Robert Mueller

  New York, People, Police

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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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• Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Running, People, Brave

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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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• You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Moon, Looks

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

  Adam Savage

  Toys

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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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• I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

  Morris Chestnut

  Character, Play, Phoenix

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Around the Wicket Gate”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, Night, Thinking

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  People, Firefighter, Novelists

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• 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

  Doctors, Firefighter, Secret

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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

  Eight, Firefighter, Luck

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• Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Funny Relationship, Men

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• 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

  Growing Up, Kids, Firefighter

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Men, Firefighter

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

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• Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Masters, Servant

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.88

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• Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]

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• There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Doctors, Choices

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• When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

  Steve Buscemi

  Jobs, Theatre, Acting

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• The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sun, Fahrenheit 451 Book

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 141), 1953.

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• The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

  Ray Bradbury

  Axes, Years, Circles

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 141), 1953.

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