Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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.
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
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.
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.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Let the dead bury the dead.
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.
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.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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...
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.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
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.
Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?
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