List of People Named Burke

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, named and/or burke:

“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.”
—Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944)

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peering through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, ‘Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)