Occupations

May 5th, 2008
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.  
~ H. Jackson Browne
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.  
~ Doug Larson

What is a Firefighter

He’s the guy next door - a man’s man with the memory of a little boy.
He has never gotten over the excitement of engines and sirens and danger.
He’s a guy like you and me with warts and worries and unfulfilled dreams.
Yet he stands taller than most of us.
He’s a fireman.
He puts it all on the line when the bell rings.
A fireman is at once the most fortunate and the least fortunate of men.
He’s a man who saves lives because he has seen too much death.
He’s a gentle man because he has seen the awesome power of violence out of
control.
He’s responsive to a child’s laughter because his arms have held too many
small bodies that will never laugh again.
He’s a man who appreciates the simple pleasures of life - hot coffee held in
numb, unbending fingers - a warm bed for bone and muscle compelled beyond
feeling - the camaraderie of brave men - the divine peace and selfless
service of a job well done in the name of all men.
He doesn’t wear buttons or wave flags or shout obscenities.
When he marches, it is to honor a fallen comrade.
He doesn’t preach the brotherhood of man.
He lives it.

Firefighter’s Prayer

When I am called to duty, God,
Whenever flames may rage
Give me strength to save a life
Whatever be its age.

Help me embrace a little child
Before it is too late
Or save an older person from
The horror of that fate.

Enable me to be alert
And hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently
Put the fire out.

I want to fill my calling
To give the best in me
To guard my friend and neighbor
And protect his property.

And if according to Your will
While on duty I must answer death’s call
Bless with Your protecting hand
My family one and all.

High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 
~ Henry Brooks Adams
Teaching without zest is a crime.
~ Virginia Woolf
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~Jacques Barzun
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.  
~John Cotton Dana
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.  
~Anonymous Teacher
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another.  And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. 
~Eugene P. Bertin		 A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. 
~ Joseph Campbell

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. 
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A Police Officer’s PledgeI PLEDGE MY COURAGE-
courage to race and conquer my own fear;
courage to take me where others will not go.

I PLEDGE MY STRENGTH
strength of body to protect others;
strength of spirit to lead others…

I PLEDGE MY DEDICATION
dedication to my job, to do it well;
dedication to my community, to keep it safe…

I PLEDGE MY CONCERN
for those who trust me;
and my compassion for those who need me.

 

Place Your Healing Touch In My Hands

Help me as I care
for my patients today,
Be there with me,
O Lord, I pray
Make my words kind
 –it means so much–
And in my hands place
Your healing touch
Let your love shine
through all that I do,
So those in need
may hear and feel You.

A Nurse is a special person, 
an angel in disguise, 
with tenderness in every touch
and caring, watchful eyes.  
A nurse will sit beside you
to talk away your fear, 
lift your spirits, warm your heart, 
and wipe away your tears.  
A nurse is a professional 
who goes the extra mile…
What is a nurse?
A little bit of Heaven…with a Smile.
Prayer For A Pilot
by Cecil RobertsLord of Sea and Earth and Air,
Listen to the Pilot’s prayer-
Send him wind that’s steady and strong,
Grant that his engine sings the song
Of flawless tone, by which he knows
It shall not fail him where he goes;
Landing, gliding, in curve, half-roll-
Grant him, O Lord, a full control,
That he may learn in heights of Heaven
The rapture altitude has given,
That he shall know the joy they feel
Who ride Thy realms on Birds of Steel.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man…To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality. 
~ Sir Eric Ashby
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.”  
~Dan Rather
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.  
~Donald D. Quinn
 

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.  
~John F. Kennedy

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  
~William Arthur Ward

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