Ed Markey Quotes

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

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.

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!

If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Momma told me, 'I'm going to town. Don't touch the trash in the backyard,' because we used to burn our trash. So I'm going to do mama a favor. I light the trash and go back inside to watch Ohio State and LSU play. And something said, 'You know what, at halftime, go check on it.' And fire is about 8 feet from the back door.

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.

We deserve a Senator who cares about our children's safety.

I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look..." Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. "Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please.