Firefighter Quotes - Page 3

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

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.

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.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

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

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

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

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

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

I grew up like every young kid I know, who wants to be a cop and wants to be a firefighter, so this lifestyle that I've chosen happens to offer that in small doses in front of the camera. I want to take advantage of that. Hopefully I can play many, many different occupations.

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