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, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Barbara Mikulski

  Training, Needs, Proud

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Home, Sanctuary

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  Ed Markey

  Couple, Children, Simple

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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Police, Way

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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, Luck, Trying

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

  Sam Mendes

  Together, Kevin, Wanted

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

  Jilly Cooper

  Book, Writing, Said

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• 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.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Two, Together

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

  Namie Amuro

  Idols, Gaps, Wanted

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