Kill A Mockingbird Quotes - Page 2

• Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Attention

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

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• That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

  Harper Lee

  Animal, Tkam, Gang

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

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• Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Jem And Scout

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

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Jem And Scout, Most Powerful

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Folks, Knows

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

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• Things are never as bad as they seem.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Seems, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

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

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• There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

  Harper Lee

  Jobs, Father, Men

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

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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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• 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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• I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Blue, Tin Cans

  "Fictional character: Atticus Finch". "To Kill a Mockingbird", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Trying, Kind

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

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• Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

  Harper Lee

  Hey, Cunninghams, Mockingbird

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.125, Random House

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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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• Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Desire, Bunch

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.31, Infobase Publishing

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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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