Burns

Burns may refer to:

  • Burn, an injury (plural)
  • Robert Burns, poet
  • Burns (surname), includes list of people and characters
  • Burns London, a British guitar maker

Places:

  • Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community in Eagle County
  • Burns, Kansas, town in Marion County
  • Burns, New York, town in Allegany County
  • Burns, Oregon, town in Harney County
  • Burns, Tennessee, town in Dickson County
  • Burns, Wisconsin, town in La Crosse County
    • Burns (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Burns, Wyoming, town in Laramie County

Ships:

  • USS Burns (DD-171), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1919 to 1930
  • USS Burns (DD-588), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1943 to 1946
  • USS W. W. Burns (1861), a schooner acquired by the United States Navy in 1861

Buildings:

  • H.B. Burns Memorial Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,
    Detested, shunn’d by saunt an’ sinner,
    How dare ye set your fit upon her,
    Sae fine a lady!
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
    —George Burns (b. 1896)

    O My Luve’s like a red, red rose,
    That’s newly sprung in June;
    O My Luve’s like the melodie
    That’s sweetly played in tune.
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)