Dawson quotes from Chicago Fire

On behalf of the Paramedics Association of America, I offer my sincerest apologies for the forceful actions I exhibited here today.

You want greater Chicago to know your business, make sure you tell Leslie Shay.

My dad used to tell me, "You have a choice. You can either choose to be in a bad mood, or you can decide to be happy."

If you're gonna engage in a battle of wills with an eleven-year-old, you're gonna loose.

[wearing a firefighter's oxygen mask] I feel like I'm trapped in a fishbowl!

Dear Louie, Chief Boden asked us to write letters to our loved one in case something ever went wrong on a call. I had the hardest time writing this letter until you came into my life. I've given up a lot to get to where I am but, when I look at you, I know it was all worth it. I want you to know that the life I've lived, the sacrifices I've made, it was in the service of helping others. Sacrifice is the hardest of all human actions, but anyone who puts on a uniform to help others knows it's also the most important. We pay a price for our service and sometimes that price is beyond our limits. I've made mistakes and bad choices, but life has a way of giving all of us second chances. Never doubt the power of goodness in one's heart. Or, for a single second, that together we make an incredible family. And you will be loved, always.

I'm lucky enough to know how it feels to hug my own child and tell him that everything's gonna be okay. And how I remember it It's the best feeling in the world. So do that for your daughter, for your granddaughter, for yourself. Because, these moments you don't get a whole lot of time before they're over, you know.

Yo Peter Mills. My partner Shay, she's been asking about you, been talking about you all morning.

Otis

She's a monster. A dude I know over at 19, he walked with a hitch for a week.

You guys are busting my balls.

Listen to me, kid. I just lost my house to foreclosure because I took a bath in the market. We're now living with my in-laws, which is two bedrooms shy of unpleasant. My wife won't take birth control pills because the pope said if she did God would cry, so I'm not having any sex. So if there's any chance that I could live vicariously through you, it's literally all I got.

All right.

Hey.

Hey.

I'm Peter Mills. Uh Pete.

[chuckles] Uh-huh. Peter Mills. Can you hand me that box right there?

Uh, yeah.

Thanks.

So the little girl from the bridge accident, she okay?

You really are new, aren't you? Listen. We get 'em to the doctor best we can, and then we move on. It's the only way to make it here.

Uh, yeah Yeah. So, um I was thinking I mean, I was wondering do you maybe wanna hook up for a beer or dinner or something?

Peter Mills, are you gay?

Me? No.

Because I am.

Is your brother still working in vice?

Yeah.

Could you see if he can swing by here real quick?

Sure. All your hookers get locked up last night?

Yeah. My whole stable.

A friend comes over to your house to help out with something do you repay your friend with your phenomenal arroz con pollo picante, or a six pack of his favorite beer?

Hypothetically, your friend can bring his own beer. However, he can barely say...ar-rose con po pi--...let alone cook it.

My cousin, the poster child for Better Homes and Gardens throws this really super fancy Christmas party every year. There's a string quartet, plum pudding, nutmeg sprinkled over the eggnog, so perfect you wanna vomit.

Sounds awesome.

You're working?

Well, with you faking it somebody's gotta step up.

Listen, it's not too late to switch teams.

You already moved in, let's take it slow.

[sees Casey standing on the truck fixing the garage door] What's up?

Otis

The door's jammed.

I told Chief we needed to grease this puppy before the weather turned.

Otis

He ignored you?

No! He told me to do it but I forgot. I've been preoccupied.

Mouch

Weren't you and Cindy using protection?

We've got four kids Mouch. I was counting on my sperm being too tired to make the swim. [Casey looks down at him in amusement]

[awkwardly] Well, I'm gonna head inside and check the levels on the hot chocolate. [leaves]

Yeah, I'm gonna provide back-up. [leaves with Shay]

Otis

[to Mills] You know, my grandmother had this garage door that was always stuck two feet off the ground so one time I tell my brother...

[notices them raising their hands] What?

We've got a rule. You tell a story we've all heard a million times, we raise our hand, you gotta shut up, no questions asked.

Otis

That's actually impolite and insulting.

[scoffs] Like that's on us.

[facetiously] Aw, dad, can we keep it? Huh, can we? Can we? Can we?

Keep what?

The dog.