Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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.
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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 rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Things are always better in the morning.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
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.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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