Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird Quotes

• You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Divorce, Funny Relationship, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

  Harper Lee

  Son, Ugly Things, Wish

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

  Harper Lee

  Encouragement, Giving, Enough

  "Mockingbird author steps out of shadows" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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• With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Routine, Unbearable

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Good Night, Children, Tkam

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.173, Random House

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

  Harper Lee

  Aunt, Land, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

  Harper Lee

  Air, Way, Mockingbird

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1960.

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• I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Play, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Let the dead bury the dead.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.102, Heinemann

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Good Luck, Tkam, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

  Harper Lee

  Life, Men, Tkam

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Missing, Mockingbird

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Jem And Scout, Most Powerful

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

  Harper Lee

  Silly, Tkam, Looks

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.182, Random House

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Home, Fighting, Yankees

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Knowing, Literature, Mockingbird

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Thinking, Skills

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.96, Random House

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• Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

  Harper Lee

  Summer, Children, Heart

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Track

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Tkam, Sometimes

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.76, Dramatic Publishing

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• Things are always better in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Optimistic, Positivity

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Killing Others

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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