Quotes on Atticus Being A Mockingbird

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.

Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. 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.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

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

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.

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

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

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.