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Quotes From "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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These are some quotes from "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
| | "Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf." |
| | "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." |
| | "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." |
| | "Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheaddness isn't." |
| | "Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand." |
| | "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." |
| | "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." |
| | "Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re 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." |
| | "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." |
| | "So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children." |
| | "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." |
| | "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." |
| | "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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." |
| | "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." |
| | "Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in." |
| | "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents." |
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One of the best books of all times...
I read it yearly.
Comment by: rebecca9588
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