List Of People Named Burke
A number of notable people have the surname Burke, de Burgh and other variations:
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Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, named and/or burke:
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)