"You will make all kinds of mistakes;but as long as you are generous and true and fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth." -Winston Churchill
"If you re going through hell, keep going."~Winston Churchill
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."-Winston Churchill
"Life is like a coin, you can spend it anyway you want, but you can only spend it once. - Winston Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."- Sir Winston Churchill
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
"It is not enough to do our best; sometimes we must do what is required." Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -Sir Winston Churchill
"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glowworm." -Winston Churchill
"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."-Winston Churchill
"We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us" -Winston Churchill
"The Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." -Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
"When your up to your ass in alligators it's too late to ask who forgot to drain the swamp" -General George Paton
"Patriotism is not dyeing for your country its making the other damn bastard die for his country"-General George Paton
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt "Believe that you can whip the enemy and you've won half the battle." -JEB Stuart
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."-Anonymous
"In the End... We will Conserve only what we Love. We will Love only what we Understand. We will Understand only what we are Taught". -The Great Naturalist Dedium
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -James Dean
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars."-Les Brown
"All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree." -Goethe
"In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished paneling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools." -Alan Paton
"Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools" -Alan Paton
"My greatest fear is that when they have turned to loving we will have turned to hating" -Alan Paton
"Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our stuggle, is beyond all human wisdom." -"Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom." -Alan Paton
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." -Mark Twain
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
--I wish you could know what it is like too search a burning bedroom for trapped children, flames rolling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under your weight as the kitchen below you burns.
--I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 3 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none.
I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively it is too late. But wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to try to save his life.
--I wish you knew the unique smell of burning insulation, the taste of soot-filled mucus, the feeling of intense heat through your turnout gear, the sound of flames crackling, the eeriness of being able to see absolutely nothing in dense smoke-sensations that I've become too familiar with.
--I wish you could understand how it feels to go to work in the morning after having spent most of the night, hot and soaking wet at a multiple alarm fire.
--I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a building fire "Is this a false alarm or a working fire? How is the building constructed? What hazards await me? Is anyone trapped?"
--Or to an EMS call, "What is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life-threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a 2x4 or a gun?"
--I wish you could be in the emergency room as a doctor pronounces dead the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to save during the past 25 minutes. Who will never go on her first date or say the words, I love you Mommy" again.
--I wish you could know the frustration I feel in the cab of the engine or my personal vehicle, the driver with his foot pressing down hard on the pedal, my arm tugging again and again at the air horn chain, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection or in traffic.
When you need us however, your first comment upon our arrival will be, "It took you forever to get here!"
--I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. "What if this was my daughter, my sister, my girlfriend or a friend? What were her parents reactions going to be when they opened the door to find a police officer with hat in hand?"
--I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my parents and family, not having the heart to tell them that I nearly did not come back from the last call.
--I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally, and sometimes physically, abuse us or belittle what I do, or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me "
--I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain or missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities, in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.
--I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of helping save a life or preserving someone's property, or being able to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos.
--I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm and asking, "Is Mommy okay?" Not even being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say.
--Or to have to hold back a long time friend who watches his buddy having rescue breathing done on him as they take him away in the ambulance. You know all along he did not have his seat belt on. A sensation that I have become too familiar with. Unless you have lived with this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, we are, or what our job really means to us.
....I wish you could though.
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