Bill Clinton Quotes

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Fire is our first form of technology.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

What we need as much as money is consensus about how we live [with fire] in that countryside [prone to forest fires] or at least agreement about how to decide…. More than 72,000 communities are at risk and only 20% have a plan for protection.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn't able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come - it was a mess.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

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.

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.