Beat Quotes

2656 Beat quotes by 1824 unique authors

He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside… — Alice Walker
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins… — Alice Walker
This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement… — Justin Torres
So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him… — Cinda Williams Chima
No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my… — Megan Whalen Turner
There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew… — Gayle Forman
He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window,… — Nora Roberts
Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you. — Rachel Caine
And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that… — Markus Zusak
your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and… — Jeanette Winterson
Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to… — Rachel Caine
I’ll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it’s time?” “I got it,” one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo… — Rick Riordan
Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic. — Cassandra Clare
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises… — Homer
Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat. — Lauren Kate
She would not stop until she beat the devil. — Lauren Kate
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. — Toni Morrison
He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town… — Tom Petty
They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission. — Kim Harrison
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? — Andrea Gibson
Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to… — Jeaniene Frost
I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that… — Rachel Vincent
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you… — Stephen King
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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