People
- Walter Adams (economist) (1922–1998), American university professor and president
- Walter Adams (bishop) (1877–1957), Canadian religious leader who served as the Anglican Archbishop of British Columbia
- Walter Sydney Adams (1876–1956), American astronomer
- Walter Adams Coxen (1870–1949), Australian Army Major General in World War I
- Walter Adams (athlete) (born 1945), German runner
- Sir Walter Adams (historian) (1906–1975), economist, former Principal of the University College of Rhodesia and director of the London School of Economics
- Walter Adams (footballer), English professional footballer
- Walter Adams (Australian politician) (1830–1892), Australian businessman, sugar planter and politician
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Loving feels lonely in a violent world,
irrelevant to people burning like last year’s weed
with bellies distended, with fish throats agape
and flesh melting down to glue.
We can no longer shut out the screaming
That leaks through the ventilation system ...”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfortunes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)