Gangsters Quotes

“I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.”

“I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.”

“When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.”

“I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.”

“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.”

“Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.”

“In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was with heat, a cuco shod in iron, exhaling fumes, with the glittering promise of coin deep in the cold lightless shaft of its eyes.”

“Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.”

“Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.”

“Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members”

“The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.”