Firefighter Quotes

Firefighter Quote of the day

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

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

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

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

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

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.

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

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

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

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

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

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."

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

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

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

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.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

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.

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

I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

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

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.

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.

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.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.