Baron Patten

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or patten:

    I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
    William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883–1962)

    Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
    —Chris Patten (b. 1944)