People
- Edd Byrnes, American actor
- Garrett Byrnes, American composer
- Gene Byrnes, American comic artist
- James F. Byrnes, US politician and U.S. Secretary of State
- John W. Byrnes, US politician
- Jim Byrnes (Australian businessman)
- Jo Byrns, US politician
- Josh Byrnes, manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks
- Eric Byrnes, American baseball player
- Kevin P. Byrnes, U.S. Army 4-star general
- Pat Byrnes, American cartoonist
- Shannon Byrnes, Australian rules player
- Steve Byrnes, television announcer and producer
- Thomas F. Byrnes, 19th Century New York City Police Inspector
- Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Premier of Queensland
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)
“Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keep on digging. Most people don’t. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can’t stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.”
—Hal Borland (1900–1978)
“Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)