The terms "Burns Fellowship" and "Burns Fellow" have several applications around the world:
- Arthur F. Burns Fellowship for United States journalists with German language skills, organized by the International Center for Journalists
- Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago - a New Zealand literary fellowship based in the nation's most Scottish city
- Vancouver Burns Fellowship - founded in 1924, including among its aims the erection of a statue of Burns (which happened only 4 years later in Stanley Park)
Famous quotes containing the words burns and/or fellowship:
“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)