First Responder Quotes

#1. I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.

Willie Geist

#2. It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.

James Wolcott

#3. I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

Taya Kyle

#4. I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.

Rick Scott

#5. To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.

Amy Carlson

#6. One need not be a saint, or even a mother, to become a bearer of God. One needs only to obey. The divine resides in all of us, but it is our choice to magnify it or diminish it, to ignore it or to surrender to its lead.

Rachel Held Evans

#7. The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

Danny Brown

#8. The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around.

Hugh Howey

#9. If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

Neil Young

#10. You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

Laura Ruby

#11. Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform

Norman Mac Donald

#12. Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's found a way to take away things I thought were mine. If this is the start I have no way to know when it will stop.

Jael McHenry

#13. UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

Jack Cade

#15. To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin

Robert Harris

#16. Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#17. I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

Bob Costas