Violent Street Gangs

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

    “Lift up our eyes to you?
    no, God, we stare and stare,
    upon a nearer thing
    that greets us here,
    Death, violent and near.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “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)