Quotes About Gypsies

Very few have any conception of the degree to which gypsies have been the colporteurs of what in Italy is called "the old faith," or witchcraft.

Lawyers were vastly overrepresented among the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces who carried out the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, Polish elites, communists, the handicapped, and others.

If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.

Okay, now get out of the way. I've got gypsies with me.

So, are you off to do that now?' He smiled. 'No. It's not worth it now. Farmers keep cutting the wages. The only people who can afford to do it are illegals.' 'Asylum seekers and that,' she said. 'Really?' 'Yes. Give it a couple of years, there'll be no more gypsies working on the hops at all.

Romany Gypsies—the Rom, they call themselves—are a nomadic people. They dislike staying under one roof too long. It makes them feel imprisoned

I've always heard that Gypsies are known for their charm. An unfounded myth, it seems." Cam's golden eyes narrowed into tigerish slits. "We're also known for carrying off gadji maidens.

Luther claims. Having lost their status as the chosen people and therefore no longer truly "Jews," the Jews are "even changed into another people altogether, with nothing [of the original] left but a lazy remnant" of foreign rascals or gypsies

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half million Gypsies who drew breath but also the countless Gypsies who had gone before, restless spirits still wandering through cities and deserts, still real.

Back one hundred generations ago there was no people but Gypsies. Everything walked and talked. Flowers visited each other, so did rocks. As time passed they all lost their legs. Trouble didn't. It still walks anywhere it wants. So do Gypsies. —Madame

Back one hundred generations ago there was no people but Gypsies. Everything walked and talked. Flowers visited each other, so did rocks. As time passed they all lost their legs. Trouble didn't. It still walks anywhere it wants. So do Gypsies. ~ Madame Mina Szabo, as learned from her grandmother Jerry

the gypsies never journeyed toward an end, for motion was an end in itself

There is a strong and fairly substantial theory in India as elsewhere that the gypsies of Europe originated in tribes driven out by Indian population displacements of the remote past.