Firefighter Quotes
110 quotes by 97 authors
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My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of…
— Denis Leary
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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…
— Denis Leary
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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…
— Denis Leary
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Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better…
— Carl Levin
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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…
— Dan Lipinski
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Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some…
— Kid Rock
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
— Will Rogers
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of…
— Andy Rooney
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
— Carl Sandburg
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members…
— Sidney Sheldon
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
— Charles Simic
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
— Nina Simone
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See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I…
— Mickey Spillane
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Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
— Willie Stargell
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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…
— Cat Stevens
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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them…
— Ethel Waters
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I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.…
— Colm Toibin
Who Wrote These Firefighter Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 110 Firefighter Quotes, led by these top contributors: