Kill A Mockingbird Memorable Quotes:

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

- Harper Lee

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

topic: Positivity, Sunshine, Views, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

- Harper Lee

source: Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.46, Dramatic Publishing

topic: People, Looks, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Novel, Tkam

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

source: FaceBook post by Harper Lee from Apr 21, 2015

topic: Wisdom, Heart, Garden, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

- Harper Lee

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Reading, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

- Harper Lee

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

topic: Adjectives, Facts, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

- Harper Lee

source: "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

topic: God, Men, Hands, Jem And Scout, Whisky

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

- Harper Lee

topic: Winning, Sometimes, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

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

- Harper Lee

topic: Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird, Folks, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

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

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Names, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Novel

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

- Harper Lee

topic: Blue, Want, Ems, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

topic: Real, Gun, Men, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

topic: Men, Squares, Color, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

topic: Sweet, Naps, Sweat, Hotter, Nightfall

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

- Harper Lee

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

topic: Animal, Tkam, Gang, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

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

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

topic: Tkam, Laughing, Kind, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

- Harper Lee

topic: Thinking, House, Way, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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.

- Harper Lee

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

topic: Children, Character, Animal, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

- Harper Lee

topic: Flower, Good Luck, Two, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

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

topic: Girl, Thinking, Skills, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

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

topic: Thinking, Laughing, World, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

Things are always better in the morning.

- Harper Lee

topic: Morning, Optimistic, Positivity, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

- James McCosh

topic: Book, Reading, Thinking, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

- Harper Lee

topic: Integrity, Believe, Reality, Jury, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch

- Harper Lee

topic: Trying, Ems, Goats, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

- Harper Lee

topic: Thinking, Prejudice, Kind, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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.

- Harper Lee

topic: Dad, Father, War, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

- Harper Lee

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

topic: Real, Nice, People, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

- Harper Lee

source: To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

topic: Black And White, Men, Racism, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

topic: Children, Sake, Adults, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

- Harper Lee

source: "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

- Harper Lee

topic: Years, Born, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- Harper Lee

source: To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

topic: Honesty, Powerful, Integrity, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

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

topic: Good Luck, Two, Broken, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

- Harper Lee

source: "Harper Lee Gets a Request for a Photo; Offers Important Life Advice Instead (2006)". www.openculture.com. July 27, 2015.

topic: Inspiring, Growing Up, Eye, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable