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.
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
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.
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...
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch
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.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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