About 1 o'clock in the morning, I get a call and his Ford Bronco was parked on top of a fire hydrant with water shooting all over the place. And he's calling me to ask me what he should do.
Quotes about hydrant (11 Quotes)
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliche, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.
We actually laid eighteen hundred feet of water into the fire scene. We had to put two fire trucks in between the hydrant here at the end of Apache and the fire to relay the water in, something that is rarely done in Savannah.
Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
He said you could hardly recognize her. It was over 100 degrees outside. She was found next to the water hydrant, so they think she was trying to cool off. She had been driving a Gator (a four-wheeled, off-road vehicle), and she had pulled it up next to the Suburban at an angle. Her hands were clammy, and you could see where she had held on to the Gator and then the Suburban, and then where her hands slid down.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.