Firefighter Quotes - Page 4

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Hero, Character, Trying

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• The law has no power over heroes.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Hero, Power, Law

  Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hero, Writing, Able

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• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

  Norman Spinrad

  Believe, Hero, Interest

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• Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

  Katherine Dunn

  Fighting, Boys, Men

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• 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.

  Frank Miller

  Hero, Play, Ugly

  "Returning to the Dark Knight: Frank Miller Interview – Part 1". Interview with Charles Brownstein, www.cbr.com. April 21, 2000.

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• The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

  Jim Ramstad

  War, Hero, Battle

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• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Running, Sex, Hero

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• Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500 firefighters on the Wallow Fire and all of us in the firefighting community, our heartfelt condolences go out to their families and their co-workers. “If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor those who make it their professional business to put it out?

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Condolences, Fire, Florida

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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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• 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.

  Marlo Thomas

  Choices, Needs, Steel

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.

  Chris Lowell

  Kids, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Blow, Light

  "Video: Revisiting Jon Stewart's Post-9/11 Speech On 'The Daily Show'". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, gothamist.com. September 20, 2001.

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• 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.

  Jake T. Austin

  Father, Years, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Son, Dna

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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

  Plautus

  Men, Occasions, Hard

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.323, tredition

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