People
- Charles Anthony Swainson (1820–1887), English theologian
- Gina Swainson (born 1958), Bermudan first runner-up in the 1979 Miss Universe contest
- Isaac Swainson (1746–1812), English patent medicine entrepreneur
- John Swainson (1925–1994), American politician
- William John Swainson (1789–1855), English naturalist
- William Swainson (lawyer) (1809–1884), English lawyer
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing ‘God.’”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)
“Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)