Patrons
Boris Johnson is a patron of the project. Other patrons are Professor Chris Carey, broadcaster Martha Kearney, historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes, renowned educationalist and philosopher Mary Warnock, biographer Anthony Seldon, and campaigner and writer Joan Smith.
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Famous quotes containing the word patrons:
“O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkeeper and his patrons on which was written “For God’s sake organize a temperance society.””
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)