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Quotes About Rescue

She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes. "What?" Will was caught off guard. "The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.
~ Cassandra Clare
The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong.
~ Cassandra Clare
Please," Tom whispered. "There's other gals you can steal. Don't take this one. Let her go home to her family." Breaking off, he licked his lips. "She ain't done you no harm." After a long while, Hunter returned his attention to the fire. "This Comanche does not sell his women. Not even for rifles. She goes with me." "Why this girl?" Hunter tossed a sliver of wood onto the flames. "Another will not do.
~ Catherine Anderson
I think Steve holds no interest for you because you have no idea what your role would be in the relationship. You might not have to rescue him." Then I paused and said with vehemence, "You'd be out of a job.
~ Catherine Gildiner
I didn't know if I had saved a life or not. For that, the person you tried to save has to survive.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
man—I think his name was Frank—hauled me out of there and asked who I belonged to, but by then I'd forgotten. By then I thought I belonged to the earth and the sky, and the sharp, pushing blades of grass that grew for me. Simon came and found me in time, and from
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
how we met." Roary pulled a cooked apple out of her—apparently cavernous—pocket. She munched on it. "You guys saved us from the witch. It was awesome." Jess shuddered, getting into the spirit of her story. "The swamp was huge and soggy and mucky and full of snakes and birds and the moon and quiet. But there's not much good building material in swamps. Not like orchards or mountains. Not for what I like to make, anyway.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Perhaps he was like a horse rescued from a barn on fire, who runs back into his burning stall simply because the place is familiar.
~ Geraldine Brooks
No one ever thinks his way out of despair. He must be rescued by the "event" of love. Explanations usually drive a despairing one deeper into lostness or prove to be untrue by pretending to be complete.
~ Gerhard E. Frost
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
~ Gilda Radner
It is rescue work, this snatching of vanishing phases of turbulence, disguised in fair words, out of the native obscurity into a light where the struggling forms may be seen, seized upon, endowed with the only possible form of permanence in this world of relative values—the permanence of memory. —JOSEPH CONRAD
~ Giles Foden
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle," she said patiently, "you don't send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!
~ Gloria Steinem
There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.
~ Golda Meir
A voice in her head whispers "Save Yourself". Whispers "This you can do . . .
~ Goldberry Long
Stories of the beleaguered Saints and of their suffering and death will be repeated again and again...Stories of their rescue need to be repeated again and again. They speak of the very essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Firefighters save hearts and homes.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighters — your worst nightmare is just another day at the office for them.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighters are hot stuff!
~ Author Unknown
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~ Author Unknown
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~ Susan Diane Murphree
So as you look at the firefighter with his rake, hose or axe, His beet red face or ice covered mustache, You should know why he goes through that smoky front door, And is forced to crawl like a baby down on the floor. He does it to save both lives and property, All that is precious to you and to me. So take a good look at this modern warrior who serves his call proud and true, And know that he would die just to save me and you.
~ Robert J. Athans, unverified