Ring Lardner Quotes

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

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

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

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.

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

I support firefighters.

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.

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.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

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

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.'

A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.

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

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.

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

I once saved someone from drowning.