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To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew
it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on
sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter
then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to
Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on
the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies
bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall
were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. -
Scout (Jean Louise Finch) the narrator, Chapter 1.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not
love breathing. - Scout, Chapter 2.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from
his point of view--until you climb inside of his skin and walk around
in it. - Atticus Finch to daughter Scout, Chapter 3.
You are too young to understand it ... but sometimes the Bible in the
hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh, of
your father. - Miss Maudie Atkinson to Scout, Chapter 5.
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. - Miss Maudie Atkinson,
Chapter 5.
The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went
through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to walk
flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of
him, putting one foot behind the other. He declared Egyptians walked
that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done,
but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they
invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would
we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives
and I'd have the facts. - Scout, Chapter 7.
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. -
Atticus Finch, Chapter 9.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. - Scout,
Chapter 9.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a
Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. - Atticus
Finch, Chapter 9.
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's
a sin to kill a mockingbird. - Attitus Finch to daughter Scout,
Chapter 10.
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. - Miss Maudie Atkinson to Scout, Chapter 10.
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. -
Scout, Chapter 11.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's
conscience. - Attitus Finch, Chapter 11.
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 you see it
through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. -
Attitus Finch, Chapter 11.
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. - Scout, Chapter 12.
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. - Attitus Finch, Chapter 16.
The witnesses for the state have presented themselves to you
gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their
testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go
along with them on the assumption - the evil assumption - that all
Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all
Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one
associates with minds of their caliber. Which, gentlemen, we know is
in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin, a lie I do not have
to point out to you. You know the truth, the truth is this: some
Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men cannot be
trusted around women, black or white. But this is a truth that applies
to the human race and to no particular race of men. - Speech to the
jury by Atticus Finch, Chapter 20.
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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting
before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a
jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. - Speech to the jury
by Atticus Finch, Chapter 20.
"I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a
clown.... 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."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks
that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm
gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."
- Chapter 22.
I don't know [how they could convict Tom Robinson], but they did it.
They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again
and when they do it-seems that only children weep. - Attitus Finch to
son Jem Finch, Chapter 22.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.- Scout, Chapter 23.
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. 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, that white man is trash. -Atticus Finch
to his son Jem Finch, Chapter 23.
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.- Jem Finch, Chapter 23.
I'm not a very good man, sir, but I am sheriff of Maycomb County.
Lived in this town all my life an' I'm goin' on forty-three years old.
Know everything that's happened here since before I was born. There's
a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead.
Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the
dead. - Sheriff Tate, Chapter 30.
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. - Scout,
Chapter 31.
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Quotations from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960
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. -
Chapter 11
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. - Chapter 11, spoken by the
character Atticus
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 you see it
through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. -
Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus
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. - Chapter 12
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. - Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus
"I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a
clown.... 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."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks
that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm
gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks." -
Chapter 22
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. 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, that white man is trash. - Chapter 23,
spoken by the character Atticus
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. - Chapter 23, spoken
by the character Scout
The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went
through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to walk
flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of
him, putting one foot behind the other. He declared Egyptians walked
that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done,
but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they
invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would
we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives
and I'd have the facts. - Chapter 7
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.
- Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time
when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. - Chapter
9, spoken by the character Atticus
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a
Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. - Chapter
9, spoken by the character Atticus
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Melanie Sands
> Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time
> when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. - Chapter
> 9, spoken by the character Atticus
Ah, would that were true, damnit. Fucking hell, I know why I like
to cuss and swear - 'cos I never did when I was a kid.
Actually, I don't. Like it, I mean.
British Film4 was showing To Kill A Mockingbird just a few days
ago, and I just caught the end - I think Harper Lee's voice saying
the bit about the mockingbirds not harming anyone, which is
why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird - that was a good film, and
a good book.
Melanie
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Mark Houlsby
> On 9 Jul., 14:08, art <acneu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time
> > when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. - Chapter
> > 9, spoken by the character Atticus
>
> Ah, would that were true, damnit. Fucking hell, I know why I like
> to cuss and swear - 'cos I never did when I was a kid.
>
> Actually, I don't. Like it, I mean.
>
> British Film4 was showing To Kill A Mockingbird just a few days
> ago, and I just caught the end - I think Harper Lee's voice saying
> the bit about the mockingbirds not harming anyone, which is
> why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird - that was a good film, and
> a good book.
>
> Melanie
>
You're not often right, but you're wrong again.
It wasn't Film4, it was BBC 4 TV.
Mark
lackpurity
> On 9 Jul., 14:08, art <acneu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time
> > when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. - Chapter
> > 9, spoken by the character Atticus
>
> Ah, would that were true, damnit. Fucking hell, I know why I like
> to cuss and swear - 'cos I never did when I was a kid.
>
> Actually, I don't. Like it, I mean.
>
> British Film4 was showing To Kill A Mockingbird just a few days
> ago, and I just caught the end - I think Harper Lee's voice saying
> the bit about the mockingbirds not harming anyone, which is
> why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird - that was a good film, and
> a good book.
>
> Melanie
I agree that killing a mockingbird for no reason is likely to provoke
a Divine Punishment. It would be a sin. Birds are not as evolved as
mammals, but they are higher than insects.
Michael Martin
> ...
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Melanie Sands
>
> I agree that killing a mockingbird for no reason is likely to provoke
> a Divine Punishment. It would be a sin. Birds are not as evolved as
> mammals, but they are higher than insects.
>
> Michael Martin
Scientists say birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs.
If the shadow of a large bird - or a kite - falls upon
a horse, the horse will bolt in panic - they say this
is because in bygone days, horses were small
and flying dino's grabbed them in flight.
Of course, a horse will also bolt in fear if it
sees something like a plastic bag hanging on
a bush.
But insects can be quite cute too...
I saved a bee once from drowning in my bathtub, and
put it on the window ledge and gave it a bit of watery
sugar and blew on it till the wings dried and it revived
and crawled towards the ledge and wiggled its
antennas and looked down and then, as I talked
encouragingly, it got up the pluck to fly away.
Since then, any time a bee comes close or gets
trapped in a room, I only have to tell it where the
window is and point, and out it goes.
Of course, having seen X-Files, I know it's not because
I saved a bee but because of my pheromones and if
only I wanted to I could get hordes of bees to swarm out
and attack the tax collector, she said with an insane cackle.
My pheromones don't work on moths, though. There was
a moth the other night in my bedroom, and after chasing it
around and trying to make it leave the room, the moth settled on
the ceiling just above my pillow.
So I decided to lie down and when I switched off the
light the moth went into cataleptic shock
and fell like a stone right onto my face.
It was gross.
Melanie
art
>
> Scientists say birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs.
> If the shadow of a large bird - or a kite - falls upon
> a horse, the horse will bolt in panic - they say this
> is because in bygone days, horses were small
> and flying dino's grabbed them in flight.
> Of course, a horse will also bolt in fear if it
> sees something like a plastic bag hanging on
> a bush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterodactyloidea
<<Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for
usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáctylos) "finger" meaning "winged
finger", "wing-finger" or "finger-wing") forms one of the two
suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most
derived members of this group of flying reptiles. They appeared during
the middle Jurassic Period, and differ from the basal
rhamphorhynchoidea by their short tails and long wing metacarpals
(hand bones). The most advanced forms also lack teeth.
Pterodactyloids (specifically the family Azhdarchidae) were the last
surviving pterosaurs when the order became extinct at the end of the
Cretaceous Period (65 million years ago), together with the non-avian
dinosaurs and most marine reptiles.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eohippus
<<Hyracotherium ("Hyrax-like beast") (also known as Eohippus or The
Dawn Horse) is an extinct genus of very small (averaging about 60 cm
in length) perissodactyl ungulates that lived in the woodlands of the
Northern Hemisphere, with species ranging throughout Asia, Europe, and
North America during the early Tertiary Period and the early to mid
Eocene Epoch, about 60 to 45 million years ago. This small, dog-sized
animal is the oldest known horse and was once considered to be the
earliest known member of the Equidae before the type species was
reclassified as a palaeothere, of a perissodactyl family related to
both horses and brontotheres.>>
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Melanie Sands <Melanie_Sa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> But insects can be quite cute too...
> I saved a bee once from drowning in my bathtub, and
> put it on the window ledge and gave it a bit of watery
> sugar and blew on it till the wings dried and it revived
> and crawled towards the ledge and wiggled its
> antennas and looked down and then, as I talked
> encouragingly, it got up the pluck to fly away.
>
> Since then, any time a bee comes close or gets
> trapped in a room, I only have to tell it where the
> window is and point, and out it goes.
> Of course, having seen X-Files, I know it's not because
> I saved a bee but because of my pheromones and if
> only I wanted to I could get hordes of bees to swarm out
> and attack the tax collector, she said with an insane cackle.
To bee, or not to bee: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
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Melanie Sands <Melanie_Sa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> My pheromones don't work on moths, though. There was
> a moth the other night in my bedroom, and after chasing it
> around and trying to make it leave the room, the moth settled on
> the ceiling just above my pillow.
> So I decided to lie down and when I switched off the
> light the moth went into cataleptic shock
> and fell like a stone right onto my face.
> It was gross.
Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.
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Art Neuendorffer