Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

• Things are always better in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Optimistic, Positivity

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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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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, House

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Years, Tkam

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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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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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Courage, Real, Gun

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

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Dad, War, Father

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

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 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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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Respect, Black And White, Men

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

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

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• I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.

  John Krasinski

  Book, Guy, Fans

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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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• Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Adjectives, Jem And Scout

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

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• People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Pride, Tkam

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

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• Let the dead bury the dead.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

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

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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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• I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

  Harper Lee

  Years, Tkam, Jem And Scout

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• We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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• 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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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... 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.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

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

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• The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Tkam, Squares

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

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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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• 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...

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Trying, Ems

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

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