Harper Lee Quotes About Kill A Mockingbird Novel
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.
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Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
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As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.
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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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