Beat

Famous quotes containing the word beat:

“What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 3:15.

“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”
—John Major (b. 1943)

“A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)