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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

  Morris Chestnut

  Character, Play, Phoenix

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Guarantees That, Support

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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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• I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

  David Ginola

  Memories, Hero, Hard Times

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Victoria Pratt

  Hero, Looks, Action

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• like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Father, Fire

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.26, Harper Collins

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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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• 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.

  David Cameron

  Simple, People, Police

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

  Ira Hayes

  Real, Hero, Battle

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

  Laura Dern

  Hero, Work Out, Faces

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