Fireman Quotes

(On being a leading man) "I`m like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don`t want to put out a fire in a dumpster."

I`ve had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there`s not a fire anymore.

It never occurred to me that you might sing or act for a living. I was thinking about becoming a fireman or businessman like my dad.

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

There aren`t any other countries in the world where they kill abortionists and bomb clinics. To be an abortionist in the United States is like to be a fireman or a policeman, to take on a heroic profession, but of course, it puts your life on the line. Regardless of one`s political convictions, you have to respect the integrity of someone who is willing to risk his life to perform this kind of procedure. You can make a good living doing other sorts of procedures.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman.

I think the difference that separates what I call a fireman and a fireman is people who are die-hard firemen that are in it to serve the public and basically help their fellow man. When (we) are cut, you bleed fire department red.

Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.