Steve Buscemi Quotes

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

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

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

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

Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.

I have such a deeper respect for firemen knowing how much they get paid and how much they put themselves on the line.

Working with real firefighters keeps us really grounded. How can you possibly complain that your trailer is not at the correct temperature when you are working with a man who ran out of a burning building to save someone's life?

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

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

Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every bridge and building that is going up to-day, on freight trains, on vessels and lumber-rafts, in mines, among the firemen and the policemen, the demand for courage is incessant and the supply never fails.

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.'

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.

I always wanted to be a cop or a fireman or do something dangerous.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.