Fireman Quotes - Page 3

• I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Caring, Thinking, Bravery

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."

  Laura Mullen

  Song, Book, Fire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was really only one person who - and I remember to this day - he was a fireman, and he said, "You'll never know what you'll do when you're in a fire." Everyone else was like: "I don't care; I would have saved my children; I could have done it. Even if I was asleep I would have woken up and saved my children." But the fireman said, "You never know what's going to happen unless you're in there."

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Fire, Done

  "Frontline (Death by Fire)". TV Series, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2010.

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• I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

  Thomas Sowell

  Silly, People, Soldier

  "Live: Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Isaac, www.aei.org. January 1, 2004.

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• I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman's - a four-on then four-off type of deal.

  Aaron Watson

  Schedules, Four, Type

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• When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Stupid, Night, Fire

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

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• For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.

  Dana Gould

  Men, Vampire, Costumes

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• The yearbook voted me most likely to be scraped off an onramp by a puking fireman.

  Christopher Titus

  Yearbook

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

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• Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

  George Carlin

  Weekend, Amusement, Sometimes

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

  David Gordon Green

  Growing Up, Directors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Upset, Kind

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• What is a human-like droid that operates from a place of free will and has been designed to have a soul? That's fascinating stuff that you just can't quite comprehend quickly. It's not like playing a fireman with a wife and kid. You can gauge where that's going to go and what's going to happen, and you can talk to other people who have done it.

  Michael Ealy

  Kids, Wife, People

  "Michael Ealy Talks ALMOST HUMAN, Connection to His Character, Finding His Performance, Approaching the Humor, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Football, New York

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• Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock, do not say hello or goodbye, do not ask what's for dinner, do not disturb me unless the police or firemen have to be called."

  Judith Krantz

  Goodbye, Writing, Police

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• I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

  Bruce Springsteen

  White, Black, Bars

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• Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Remember, Accord

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Fire, Flames

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

  Dylan Thomas

  Aunt, Shining, Missing

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

  Richard Peck

  Children, Home, Waiting

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• Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, People, Laughing

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• British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

  Emma Thompson

  Gorgeous, British, Known

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• My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Father, Thinking

  Interview with Sandra Bullock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Real, Italian, Men

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