People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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.
Autumn was her happiest season.
As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings—I’ll grant you it may have been...
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view— Sir? —until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.
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...
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 the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, i...
It's not time to worry yet
I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
Text for today is taken from the twenty-first chapter of Isaiah, verse six: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.