Firefighter Quotes - Page 3

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

  Ken Salazar

  Kings, Hero, Drs

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

  Boris Becker

  Life, Hero, Want

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

  GG Allin

  Hero, Influence

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

  Taylor Kinney

  Knights, Shining, Armor

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• No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.

  Raymond Kelly

  People, Police, Helping

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• You had a package. It was torn, so I looked in.” She lifted one of a stack of firefighter calendars, with his own mug and half-naked body on the cover. “Nice,” she said, a ghost of a smile crossing her lips. “Mr. 2008.” He bit back a sigh. “It’s for charity.” “And you definitely contributed.

  Jill Shalvis

  Nice, Naked, Calendars

  Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, Cami Dalton, Kira Sinclair (2008). “One-Click Buy: August Harlequin Blaze: Secret Seduction\The Hell-Raiser\Lie with Me\Pleasure to the Max!\Whispers in the Dark\Flashback”, p.1125, Harlequin

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• I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

  Jodi Picoult

  Parenting, Should Have, Names

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'

  Colm Toibin

  Mean, Talking, Feet

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• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Cousin, Guy, Grew

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

  Denis Leary

  Bigs, Crew, Extended Family

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• Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

  Willie Stargell

  Running, Hero, Home

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• It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, Kindness

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Tattoo, Military, Should Have

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• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Needs, Care, Helping

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• 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.

  Dan Lipinski

  Hero, Our Veterans, Needs

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• Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

  Kid Rock

  Baseball, Teacher, Smart

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• My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

  Denis Leary

  Cousin, Couple, Fire

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Hero, Coward

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