Firefighting Quotes

• 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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• 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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• For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

  Eleanor Everest Freer

  Safety, Mind, Gadgets

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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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• The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Men, Firefighter

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Masters, Servant

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.88

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• I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

  Luke Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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

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• Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]

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• Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Funny Relationship, Men

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• When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dad, Father, Fire

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• I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro or the macro level. Micro, you would ask: "What kind of financial or banking system do we want?" Macro, you would say: "What are the underlying problems in the structure of our economy?"

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Thinking, Banking, Levels

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

  Lael Brainard

  Moving, Support, Political

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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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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• Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Children, Home, Caring

  "Exclusive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview: Full transcript". "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 17, 2015.

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• I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

  Zach Braff

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

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