Kill A Mockingbird Novel Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Blue, Tkam, Ems

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ch. 10

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Killing Others

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Mad

  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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• 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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• Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Naps, Sweat

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Infobase Publishing

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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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• 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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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Wisdom, Heart, Garden

  FaceBook post by Harper Lee from Apr 21, 2015

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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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Adults

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Track

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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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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• hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Fists, Jem And Scout

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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Life, Men, Tkam

  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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• 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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• Let the dead bury the dead.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird

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

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• Things are never as bad as they seem.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Seems, Kill A Mockingbird

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

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