Famous People Bearing The Name
- Folke Filbyter, legend
- Folke Birgersson, earl
- Folke Bensow, architect
- Folke Bernadotte, diplomat
- Folke A. Nettelblad, freelance writer and translator
- Folke Rydén, journalist
- Folke Zettervall, architect
- Folke West, traveller
- Folke den tjocke, Sveticæ gentis nobilissimus
- Carl XVI Gustaf Folke Hubertus (Bernadotte), king of Sweden
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, people and/or bearing:
“Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”
—Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
“The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naïve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest.... Statesmanship ... consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burthens.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)