Omari Hardwick Quotes

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders - and to all Americans.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

I think police officers are modern day heroes. I think they protect us.

My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.

I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

The men and women of our emergency services are the very best of us.

I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.

Whether it's police officers, firefighters, first responders, or 911 dispatchers, many dedicated Americans work long hours, and often in difficult conditions, to make sure that when someone's in need, they can help.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.