Firefighter Quotes

#1. I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

Joe Lhota

#2. I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.

Denis Leary

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

Jodi Picoult

#4. The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Roger Altman

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

Brad Paisley

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

Paul Sloane

#7. Find 'em hot, leave 'em wet," he murmured.
"Well known firefighter maxim.

Kate Meader

#8. If your hero is a firefighter, your heroine better be an arsonist.

Linda Howard

#9. A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

Kathryn Shay

#10. Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald

Jodi Picoult

#11. You know, Stone, just because a pretty girl prefers a firefighter to you doesn't mean all the boys at that firehouse need to suffer for you bein' jilted. Far's I know, you got served this lesson at least once before. Learn, son. You may actually land a girl one day if you stop actin' like an ass.

Kristen Ashley

#12. That's exactly what I'm telling you. And right now, I'm feeling in need of the firefighter part of him because he just freaking lit my body on fire with his damn orgasmic drumming.

Erika Taylor

#13. You had a package. It was torn, so I looked in." She lifted one of a stack of firefighter calendars, with his own mug and half-naked body on the cover. "Nice," she said, a ghost of a smile crossing her lips. "Mr. 2008." He bit back a sigh. "It's for charity." "And you definitely contributed.

Jill Shalvis

#14. Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Denis Leary

#15. Mr. Firefighter Derek, please douse my friend's fiery hole with your fire hose. Nobody likes a burnt burger.

K.M. Golland

#16. I'm a firefighter, Ellie. I do the saving in this relationship.

Jamie McGuire

#17. I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, or something safe and sensible. But no, I had to be an historian.

Jodi Taylor

#18. I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.

Jon Favreau

#19. Yep, got it. You do know I'm a decorated ex-marine, firefighter and badass biker. I got this, sweetheart.

River Savage

#20. You seriously have a Dalmatian? Is that, like, mandatory for a firefighter?

Dawn Altieri

#21. Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

#22. Baby, I'm a firefighter. I find 'em hot and leave 'em wet.
I hope you like being damp.

K.M. Golland

#23. 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.

Ed Markey

#24. I really wanted to help people, in fact I started schooling to become a firefighter, but as a firefighter in my area you have to be an Emergency medical technician as well.

Cameron West

#25. Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club

Bobby Gould

#26. That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

Ryan Guzman

#27. I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

Thomas Kean Jr.

#28. A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.

Bill Dedman

#29. It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

Jake T. Austin

#30. Wyatt Fox. It suited him. Clean, masculine, not a syllable wasted. Like James Bond, if 007 included cowboy-marine-firefighter in his stable of personae.
Fox.

Wyatt Fox. License to thrill - and send your panties plummeting.

Kate Meader

#31. Hot, a badass climber, and a firefighter. I think my panties just melted.

Pamela Clare

#32. Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper.

Joel Stein

#33. I think if a writer is being honest they'd admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They're like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut.

Dan Alatorre

#34. You're a fireman?" I asked. "You're the one who ... ?"
He nodded. "I'm a firefighter."
"You threw me into a pool." I scowled.
He grinned. "You were on fire."
"Well, there is that," I allowed.

Cambria Hebert

#35. As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Mark Sanchez

#36. I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.

Chris Lowell

#37. I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.

Ryan Potter

#38. There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.

Alec Berg

#39. 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.

Elizabeth Warren

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

Brian D. McLaren

#41. She loved her son and wanted him to make a fresh start here. Her ex-husband always tried to pass Aaron off as normal, not wanting anyone to know his son was different. She wasn't going to go down that road.

Tamara Hoffa

#42. In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

Ginger Baker

#43. He shook his head, a smile tugging at his lips. "Two hours isn't going to be enough time."
She grinned, rocking her hips. "We'd better make it count.

Lisa Kessler

#44. 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.

Ian Somerhalder

#45. Are all firefighters as hot as you?

Lisa Kessler

#46. That voice. It couldn't be.
She turned.
The Marine.
Her brain tried to compute the man before her. The same uncompromising blue-gray eyes, but more distant. The same fit body, but more space filling. The same rugged features, but more bearded.

Bearded!

Kate Meader

#47. If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Elizabeth Warren

#48. I know what it's like to be different. I'm a Native American in a white world.

Tamara Hoffa

#49. 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 made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.

Tamara Hoffa

#50. What would it be like to be caught in the emotional crosshairs of a man like Luke Almeida? To belong to him, body and soul? The prospect warmed her some. Scared her more. With Luke, she suspected there would be no half measures.

Kate Meader

#51. The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

Tamara Hoffa

#52. Off-limits or not, she was beautiful. The type of beautiful he could fall for.

Dawn Altieri

#53. I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.

John Assaraf

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

Plautus

#55. Mmm, carry me."
I laughed, reaching for my sweatpants. "I carry girls, boys, and women, not fully grown capable men."
"Slacker." He grinned, shoving me.

Shaye Evans

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

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Taylor Kinney

#58. She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God's gift to her, and she wouldn't trade him for the world.

Tamara Hoffa

#59. Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tim O. Casey

#60. She didn't warn you about me?"
"Should she have?"
Erica finished her drink, relishing the burn in her belly and the flush of heat in her cheeks as she nodded "Definitely."
His gaze smoldered. "It's a good thing danger is my calling, then.

Lisa Kessler

#61. I'm not leaving him, Sam! And I'm not waiting for the others to help.

Shaye Evans

#62. A smile curved the corners of his mouth under the dust-and soot-covered visor. "You're crying?
I answered his question with my tear-stricken gaze.
"I'm not going anywhere." He reached his hand out and I grasped it tightly.

Shaye Evans

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

James McGreevey

#64. I'll see you later," I murmured.
"Yeah." Our foreheads pressed together. Our lips lingered half an inch apart. Thin ropes of dark hair hung over his forehead as sweat glistened across his face in the streetlights.
"Love you."
"Love you more," he murmured.

Shaye Evans