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:
“Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,
That fate is thine—no distant date;
Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives , elate,
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight,
Shall be thy doom.”
—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)