Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.
Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club
Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday. . . I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 911 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
I really wanted to help people, in fact I started schooling to become a firefighter, but as a firefighter in my area you have to be an Emergency medical technician as well.
