Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Commoner

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Denis Leary

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Denis Leary

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 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.

Denis Leary

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Denis Leary

Firefighters don't go on strike.

Denis Leary

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Charles Simic

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Dick York

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

Dorothy Hamill

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

David Friedman

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

Sam Mendes

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

Thomas Carper

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

Mark Sanchez

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Marlo Thomas

Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

Cat Stevens

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

Hugh Shelton

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

Elle Macpherson

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

Lynn Westmoreland

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

Leslie Fiedler

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

Tyra Banks

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Rudy Giuliani

When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.