Simon Van Booy Quotes

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

Saving a life overrides territories.

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

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Here is the boy, drowning.

Would I drown saving him?

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

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

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

My mom saved my life. She gave me mouth-to-mouth more than once.

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

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

Freemen, to the rescue!

In war time you will do almost anything. You just have to.

Heroes are not always available.

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

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.

You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.