Firefighter Quotes

I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

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

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

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.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

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

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

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

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."

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.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.