Ace Young Quotes

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

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

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!

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

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

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

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

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

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

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.'

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

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

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Fire is our first form of technology.

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.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.