Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Here is the boy, drowning.

I once saved someone from drowning.

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

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.

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Saving a life overrides territories.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

The terrorists gave up their lives to kill people. Americans gave up their lives to save people.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

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

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

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.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

I see somebody dying, I pick him up.

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

You think I regret saving your life?

There you are," he said when she bobbed up. "I was getting worried." "What are you doing?" "Waiting till you're ready to drown." He smiled and eased back down on the seat. "And then I'm going to save your life. Dan did it for Phoebe and I'm going to do it for you." "Dan didn't try to murder her first!" she screamed. "I go the extra mile.