Quotes on Kill A Mockingbird Novel

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.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

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.

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

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.

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.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

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.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your 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.

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.

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