Quotes About Fighting Fires

#1. About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.

Bill Dedman

#2. At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

Lester Holt

#3. I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

David Mamet

#4. To getting laid and fighting fires.

Amy Andrews

#5. No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Auliq Ice

#6. Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

Joe R. Lansdale

#7. The road of negative thinking gets dark, very fast. Turn around, quickly, before the light - your hope,
vanishes.

Charles F. Glassman

#8. How boring just to be a body.

Susan Sontag

#9. She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

Joseph Heller

#10. What is once well done is done forever.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Joyce Kilmer

#12. I still felt hot. Like I was sweltering. Like I was on fire. The kind of fire that couldn't be put out by water. The kind that couldn't be put out the way I was used to fighting other fires. She was the only one who could douse this kind of fire.

Kat Austen