Quotes About Gang Life

#1. The fact is, all gangsters live in dog years. We come up fast in terms of making a name for ourselves, but, once our names have been established on the streets, we are on our way out.

Drexel Deal

#2. Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

Naomi Wood

#3. I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.

Greg Boyle

#4. But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.

Gordon Korman

#5. School life is like being on a monkey mountain ... monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again ... and a hierarchy gets established.

Shouko Akira

#6. So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?

Richelle Mead

#7. Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then - the fame, the respect, and the recognition - was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader

Drexel Deal

#8. Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest?

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.

Zhi Gang Sha

#11. Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it.

Tibor Fischer

#12. You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.

Dr. Seuss

#13. I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Albert Camus

#14. I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

F. Murray Abraham

#15. Let me see you do the 'rag time dance' ...
Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance' ...
Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag' ...
Now take your lady to the world's fair ( ... )
And do the 'rag time dance.'

Scott Joplin

#16. May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.

Shantideva

#17. I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

Tibor Fischer

#18. I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Yani Tseng

#19. I know you don't understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward," he says.

Zoe Cruz

#20. I try
without success
to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Emil Cioran

#21. Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Dave Reichert

#22. I don't see why its taking so long," Maryse was saying to Magnus "is that normal?"
"What's not normal is the discount I'm giving you."Magnus tapped the heel of his boot against the wall. "Normally I charge twice this much

Cassandra Clare

#23. I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee.

Andrea K. Host

#24. In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

Jhonen Vasquez

#25. O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a poor body
Gang about his biziness!

James Hogg

#26. One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Tibor Fischer

#28. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Robert Burns

#29. Never let them know your next move.

The Notorious B.I.G.