Violent Street Gangs

Famous quotes containing the words violent, street and/or gangs:

    “There may be in the cup
    A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,
    And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
    Is not infected; but if one present
    Th’abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known
    How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
    With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The American father ... is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Word’s gane to the kitchen,
    And word’s gane to the ha’,
    That Marie Hamilton gangs wi’ bairn
    To the hichest Stewart of a’.”
    —Unknown. Mary Hamilton (l. 1–4)