You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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.
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
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.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
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.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
or simply:
