57 Quotes About Firefighter

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

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.

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.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

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