Kill A Mockingbird Quotes - Page 3

• I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

  Harper Lee

  Encouragement, Giving, Enough

  "Mockingbird author steps out of shadows" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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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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• Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

  Harper Lee

  Aunt, Land, People

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

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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Home, Fighting, Yankees

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

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• With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Routine, Unbearable

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.

  John Krasinski

  Book, Guy, Fans

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• Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Wrinkles

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.36, Random House

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• I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

  Chris Crutcher

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

  Harper Lee

  Night, Men, People

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

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• The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there's not a nick, not a blur, there's not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I'd rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it's signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail.

  John Larroquette

  Taken, Years, Yesterday

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Moving, Messages, Hollywood

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• I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Night, Car, People

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.369, Penguin

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• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  Nancy Grace

  Mockingbird, Prized Possessions, Harper

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• I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Years, Lunch

  Source: wwd.com

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