Firefighter Quotations

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

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.

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

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

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

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

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

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

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

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

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 didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

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 identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

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.

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

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.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

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.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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

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.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

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

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.

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.'

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

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

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

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

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

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

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.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

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.

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

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

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.

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

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

Firefighters don't go on strike.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

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.

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.

It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

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.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

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

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.

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

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

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

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

When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.