Firefighters Quotes
The truth about plume dominated fire is that it’s like a forward pass in football. Three things can happen and two of them are bad.
- Richard Rothermel
Predictable is Preventable.
- Gordon Graham
Always leave yourself a way out.
- Chuck Yeager
The fire didn’t have organizational problems.
- Norman MacLean
No rescuing the rescuers. No amusing obituaries.
- AJ Hicks
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
- General George Patton
Our firefighters are our last line of defense baby.
- Jack Scalia
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
- Christopher Dodd
Vita brevis; terra larga. Life is short; the land is long.
- John Wendt
We’ve all got it coming. Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.
- Clint Eastwood
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
- Viscount Cecil
The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.
- Gregory Widen
There are no great men,only ordinary men,who have met extraordinary challenges.
- Admiral Halsey
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen
The strength of the wolf is in the pack, the strength of the pack is in the wolf.
- Rudyard Kipling
Never take any fire personally. You aren’t the one that made the woods flammable.
- Dave
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I became a firefighter because I felt it was my calling to serve my community and others.
- Rob Koons
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.
- Verne Hill
Delaware’s firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.
- Thomas Carper
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
- Susan Diane Murphree
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
- Colin Powell
Don’t worry boy, it’s a controlled burn. I don’t know the chemical reaction, but fire made it good.
- Homer J Simpson
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
- Honore De Balzac
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
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.
- Edward F. Croker


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