Winston Churchill Quotes

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

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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

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

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 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.

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

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

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

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.