Francis Adams is the name of:
- Francis Adams (translator) (1796–1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
- Francis Adams (writer) (1862–1893), English essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist
- Francis Adams (athlete) (1953–1987), sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- Francis Colburn Adams, American miscellaneous writer
Famous quotes containing the words francis and/or adams:
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had to hailbomb, for twelve hours, and when it was all over I walked up.... We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinking dink
body. That smell, you know, that gasoline smell. The whole hill. It smelled like ... victory.”
—John Milius, U.S. screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)
““You are bothered, I suppose, by the idea that you can’t possibly believe in miracles and mysteries, and therefore can’t make a good wife for Hazard. You might just as well make yourself unhappy by doubting whether you would make a good wife to me because you can’t believe the first axiom in Euclid. There is no science which does not begin by requiring you to believe the incredible.””
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)