Firefighter Quotes · Page 2

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

— Jack Scalia

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

— Plautus

I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.

— Stipe Miocic

I would not want to be a firefighter.

— Goran Dragic

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

— GG Allin

“A firefighter’s job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.”

— Kathryn Shay

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

— James McGreevey

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— Adam Arkin

We need police who think like firefighters, Not like soldiers in a war zone.

— YourMaj3sty

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

— Wayne Allard

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

— Brad Paisley

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an…

— Namie Amuro

“Because when everyone else is panicking, when the entire whole world is freaking out -- that's when I get calm.”

— Katherine Center

“The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she…

— Tamara Hoffa

I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an…

— Chris Lowell

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that…

— Ian Somerhalder

Military firefighters put their lives on the line each day - not just to defend our country, but also to selflessly defend…

— Abigail Spanberger

An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine…

— Bill Dedman

Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby…

— Caroline Paul

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

— Barbara Mikulski

You don't need a college degree to be a good carpenter, welder, plumber, auto mechanic, member of the armed forces, or firefighter.

— Kathy Szeliga

“Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down…

— Matthew Desmond

When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga,…

— Kim Raver

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less…

— Kid Rock

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their…

— Barack Obama

“Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She’d made the right decision, hadn’t she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She’d…

— Tamara Hoffa

I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having…

— Warren Farrell

Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people…

— Jon Stewart

“Boy oh boy, this man is trouble. He was slowly tearing down the wall she’d built around her heart, brick by brick.…

— Tamara Hoffa

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

— Sam Mendes

Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.

— Taylor Kinney

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

— Jesse Spencer

“You seriously have a Dalmatian? Is that, like, mandatory for a firefighter?”

— Dawn Altieri

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

— Bobby Seale

Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.

— Guy Martin

“The arsonist and the firefighter occupy the same ground; time is the only difference.”

— Faisal Khosa

When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter.

— Stipe Miocic

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

— Brad Bird

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

— Willie Stargell