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:
“But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white—then melts for ever;”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? For if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 13:2.