Famous Fire Dept Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. — Madeleine L'Engle

Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention. — Steven D. Levitt

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm probably laughing at myself more than anyone is, because I'm around me all the time. — Tim Kinsella

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it. — Jill Paton Walsh

I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around. — Jill Douglas

Can we screw the 'sorry' part and let me hit you back instead?
Vishous to Butch — J.R. Ward

Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem. — Jeff Henderson

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. — Patricia Briggs

I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken. — Alexander Pope

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom ... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service. — Ronald Reagan

In stressful situations, people often talk about a fight-or-flight response. Which, in my opinion, doesn't give enough credit to the more common reaction of curling up into a little ball. [ ... ] For once, I made the decision to play it cool. Or stupid. Whichever came first.
-"Le Paris!" in How Did You Get This Number, by Sloane Crosley (2010), P. 219-220 — Sloane Crosley

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. — Larry Wall

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. — Rory Stewart