Being A Firefighter Quotes & Sayings

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees. — F. S Flint

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do. — Philip Yancey

I felt a different kind of loss in that moment. It reminded me of how a cocoon must feel when the butterfly emerges. Having nurtured and protected a thing for so long. Only to be left behind one day, a hollow shell, when it suddenly takes flight and never looks back. — J. Walker

Baby, I'm a firefighter. I find 'em hot and leave 'em wet.
I hope you like being damp. — K.M. Golland

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else. — David Hyde Pierce

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way. — Katherine Paterson

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there. — Chuck Palahniuk

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me. — Rick Warren

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell. — Rita Rudner

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I know you said you didn't want this, but here's the thing. I don't believe you. — Chelsea M. Cameron

Girls who used to tell me I ain't cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up! — Donald Glover

He finds it extraordinary that on some mornings, just after he has woken up, as he bends down to tie his shoes, he is flooded with a happiness so intense, a happiness so naturally and harmoniously at one with the world, that he can feel himself alive in the present, a present that surrounds him and permeates him, that breaks through him with the sudden, overwhelming knowledge that he is alive. And the happiness he discovers in himself at that moment is extraordinary. — Paul Auster

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. — David Guterson

I think if a writer is being honest they'd admit to a file full of a dozen or more stories that are all started to varying degrees. They're like the kid who wants to be a firefighter and a police officer and an astronaut. — Dan Alatorre

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational. — Alasdair MacIntyre