Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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.
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem.Were you ever a turtle, huh?
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
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 see it t...
I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.
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 see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.-Atticus Finch
What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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 aro...