List Of People Named Jesse
Jesse is a common first name in many English-speaking countries. This spelling is most often used as the male variant of the name, while Jessie is the most common spelling for the female variant. In recent times, Jessie is often a pet form of Jessica, although it is actually a name in its own right, derived from the Hebrew name Yishay. It can also be used as a Scottish pet form of Janet. Jesse is also a Dutch and a Finnish male name.
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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“... people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)
“We were hospitably entertained in Concord, New Hampshire, which we persisted in calling New Concord, as we had been wont, to distinguish it from our native town, from which we had been told that it was named and in part originally settled. This would have been the proper place to conclude our voyage, uniting Concord with Concord by these meandering rivers, but our boat was moored some miles below its port.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)