Firefighter Quotes - Page 5

• I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

  Scott Walker

  Teacher, Thinking, Issues

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• Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

  Carl Guardino

  Teacher, Nature, Smart

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• There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Memories, Mean, People

  "Kudlow & Company", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 26, 2007.

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• Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club

  Bobby Gould

  Clubs

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• 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.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Teacher, Medicine, Woven

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Ginger Baker

  Virginia, Honor, Way

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• Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he said, 'the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life.' So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Country, Struggle

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• Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Running, Teacher, Kids

  "Madame Voldemort Is Wrong: Public Employees Are American Heroes" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.

  David Plouffe

  Country, Teacher, Thinking

  "David Plouffe on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

  Ruth Park

  Passion, Writing, Wanted

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• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  Barry Pepper

  Hero, My Hero

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

  Bobby Seale

  Moving, Hero, Police

  "Super Bowl 50: The Hate Speech Halftime Show" by Katherine Ainsworth, blog.uspatriottactical.com. February 09, 2016.

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• In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Memories, Hero, Struggle

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• Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

  Peter Berg

  Hero, My Hero

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• 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.

  Mickey Spillane

  Hero, Redneck, Literature

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", crimetime.co.uk, 2001.

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

  David Lloyd George

  Country, Hero, Political

  Speech at Wolverhampton, 23 Nov. 1918, in The Times 25 Nov. 1918

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• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Athlete, Fighting

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• I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.

  Laura Dern

  Moving, Commitment, Differences

  "New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.

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• I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

  Christopher Atkins

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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

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• Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

  William Hurt

  Hero, Guy, Risk

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• I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Father, Artist, Tears

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

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

  Brad Bird

  Hero, Television, Certain

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• I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Couple, Men, Thinking

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• And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

  Stanley Tucci

  Projects, Wanted, My Own

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• I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

  Anthony Anderson

  Family, House, Wanted

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

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