Scout To Kill A Mockingbird Famous Quotes & Sayings
25 Scout To Kill A Mockingbird Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.— Jim Trelease
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.— Kahlil Gibran
If trees could speak they wouldn't— Dorianne Laux
Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. ( ... ) Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.— Harper Lee
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.— Gertrude Stein
I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement.— Harper Lee
Let's be Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus's children, Scout and Jem, carefully watch their father's behavior as the house next door to theirs burns to the ground. As the fire creeps closer and closer to the Finches' home, Atticus appears so calm that Scout and Jem finally decide that "it ain't time to worry yet." We need to be Atticus. Hands in our pockets. Calm. Believing. So that our children will look at us and even with a fire raging in front of them, they'll say, "Huh. Guess it's not time to worry yet.— Glennon Doyle Melton
If you think Atticus Finch went home at night and slept easy because he knew he was doing the right thing, you're wrong ... Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense. And because Jem and Scout would grow up to be like their father, spreading his wisdom, understanding his compassion and sharing his strength which are the only, the only weapons we have against injustice.— Kristen Ashley
Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity.— Megan Shepherd
Just don't call it madness.
Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.— Harper Lee
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.— Harriet Beecher Stowe
He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.— Guy Mowbray
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman.— Charles J. Shields
So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.— Catherynne M Valente
There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing.— Harper Lee
'Your stomach's growling,' I said.
'I know it,' he said.
Definitely offer up some chocolate. That shit is like a cure all.— Monica Murphy
Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.— Peter Watts
Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, 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
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.— Mary Chapin Carpenter
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.— Parker Posey
I don't care how smart you are," Guild said. "Sanctuary experts have examined that bomb for decades and they still have no idea how it worked, let alone how to fix it in a single afternoon."— Derek Landy
"Of course they don't, you damn fool. They didn't build the thing in the first place, now did they?" - Kenspeckle
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.— Donald Rumsfeld
Some days I feel like I'm still not okay. Some days I feel fine. Happy, even.— Veronica Roth
I love Carly Fiorina's fire; she's feisty as heck. She really seems to fearlessly take the fight right to the doorstep of the Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Foundation.— Nicolle Wallace
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.— Harper Lee
