Quotes on Jem And Scout

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

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.