Fireman Quotes - Page 2

• Obama says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.

  Mitt Romney

  Teacher, Stupid, Cutting

  "Romney doesn't get that cops and teachers are Americans, too" by Roland Martin, edition.cnn.com. June 9, 2012.

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• The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.

  Gene Veith

  Mother, Father, Military

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• I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

  Harrison Ford

  Fire, Want, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody's like "How can you remain with a level head?". And I'm like "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies. It's stupid."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Running, Stupid

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

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• I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Doctors, Lawyer

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and exalted-a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical-causing our faces to crack into a smile-and deeply touching-causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.

  Dawna Markova

  Teacher, Kindness, Eye

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• My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Adventure, Years, Oil

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• It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.

  John Leguizamo

  Blue, Class, People

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• I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.

  Tom Waits

  Army, Kind, Imagine

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• The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims . . . were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians . . . It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Blow, People

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• I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

  Julie Delpy

  Sweet, Dad, Tight Pants

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• Roxanne came along in '86, when I was doing a lot of stand-up. I auditioned for the movie, and of course I was a huge Steve Martin fan, so I really hoped I would get this part. I don't think there was any part in particular that I auditioned for. I just went in and talked with them. There were so many parts in there, and so many comedians ended up getting in that movie, playing different firemen and townspeople.

  Kevin Nealon

  Thinking, Comedian, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

  Manny Montana

  Jobs, Acting, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

  Trent Reznor

  Stars, Rocks, Careers

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• The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.

  P. W. Singer

  War, Years, Fire

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.

  Kate O'Beirne

  Strong, Hero, Men

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• Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

  Sebastian Junger

  Burning, Saving, Warehouse

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

  Susan J. Ellis

  Men, Volunteer, Trustees

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• I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

  Ted Turner

  Climbing, Imagination, Mountain

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• From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Military, Book, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

  Richard Peck

  Children, Home, Waiting

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• I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

  "Mamet Talk" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2008.

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• It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Upset, Kind

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• We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Healing

  "Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the "Old Way of Thinking" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. November 1, 2001.

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• I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cowboy, Nurse

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