Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

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.

I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

Would I drown saving him?

What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

I once saved someone from drowning.

Saving a life overrides territories.

The occupant should take all due and needful measures to restore and ensure public order and public safety.

He means … to keep his hand under our chin to prevent us from drowning, but not to lift our heads out of the water.

In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.

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.

If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people.

You may never need them, but if you do, they'll be there. It's that bedrock promise of protection that makes our public safety officials the unsung heroes that they are.

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

When all else fails, start running!