Quotes on Firefighter

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

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.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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

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

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

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

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.