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  • The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

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

    Men   Thinking   Fire  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.247, Dial Press
  • We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

    "Super Bowl 50: The Hate Speech Halftime Show" by Katherine Ainsworth, blog.uspatriottactical.com. February 09, 2016.
  • I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

    Life   Hero   Firefighter  
  • Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

    Source: collider.com
  • Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

    Country   Blow   Light  
    "Video: Revisiting Jon Stewart's Post-9/11 Speech On 'The Daily Show'". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, gothamist.com. September 20, 2001.
  • 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.

    Hero   Firefighter   Guy  
  • In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

  • 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.

    "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.
  • There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

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

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

    Home   Feet   Firefighter  
  • There were a lot of people in our nationalist group who went on to become cops and firefighters and correctional officers. Unfortunately so. I haven't talked to them in 20 years, but just by keeping tabs on Facebook I know that there are some who've gone that way. And they've never indicated publicly that they've changed their opinions. It's a minority.

    Source: chicagoist.com
  • It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

    First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009
  • Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

  • There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

    "Kudlow & Company", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 26, 2007.
  • They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

    Hurt   Player   Games  
  • like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

    Children   Father   Fire  
    Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

    "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.
  • And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

  • 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.

  • Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

    Song   Two   Firefighter  
  • Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

    Hero   Athlete   Fighting  
  • Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  • Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

    Mother   Father   Moving  
  • We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

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

    Hero   Race   Firefighter  
  • A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

  • If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

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

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