Responders Quotes

#1. I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.

Taya Kyle

#2. Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.

Ben Nelson

#3. What we have is a great number of people working extremely hard to make sure that death number stays where it is and the people that have to go to shelters are taken care of tonight and for as many days as it takes and that we support our first responders that are out there keeping security.

Jay Nixon

#4. What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.

Taya Kyle

#5. self-determination theory." Many theories of behavior pivot around a particular human tendency: We're keen responders to positive and negative reinforcements, or zippy calculators of our self-interest, or lumpy duffel bags of psychosexual conflicts.

Daniel H. Pink

#6. In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

Nancy Gibbs

#7. The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Russel Honore

#8. The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

Kathleen Sebelius

#9. As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

Valerie Jarrett

#10. Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.

Joe Lieberman

#11. Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

Louise Slaughter

#12. I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

Vijay Kumar

#13. The Gulf Waterkeepers are our first line of defense against the BP oil disaster. Their incredible knowledge of the marshes, wetlands, beaches and inner-coastal waters make them invaluable first responders. Their commitment makes them critical and effective community leaders.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#14. Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Susan Collins

#15. From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Vito Fossella

#16. First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

Ed Markey

#17. I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

John Doolittle

#18. We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.

Bob Menendez

#19. Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Christopher Dodd

#20. But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.

Gregory David Roberts

#21. He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.' - The Red Knight

Miles Cameron

#22. We will never reach the world for Christ in our generation if we simply follow in the groove worn for us by our predecessors.

Melvin L. Hodges

#23. I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Ed Sheeran

#24. An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Julia Cameron

#26. You trample on hearts as if they're grapes and you're making wine.

Mallory Kane

#27. You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've spent so long relying on her that it's sort of become a habit. It's time I relied on myself for a bit and took control of my life.

Nicola Sinclair

#28. Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

Lysa TerKeurst

#29. I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.

Rick Riordan

#30. You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

Kid Cudi

#31. A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

Sheila E.

#33. It's funny how we all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Habeeb Akande