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. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus
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Related There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but h... HARPER LEE To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE You rarely win, but sometimes you do. HARPER LEE I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession. NANCY GRACE Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill ... BERKELEY BREATHED A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see so... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea... TOM STOPPARD I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness o... SCOTT TUROW To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll... HARPER LEE Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want peop... CARL SAGAN When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. C... HARPER LEE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت... مليكة مستظرف Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. HARPER LEE How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. HARPER LEE 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was so important because it was such adult film-making - to see some... WES CRAVEN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that... RAINN WILSON I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I r... MARGARET STOHL We get 'em in when they're 3 days old. We put their pens around growing feed crops, so they can feed... JAMES MORROW We are still very saddened by the fact that Hal was never able to be free. To minimize stress, we ha... REBECCA ASMAN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL These are not hazards that kill thousands of children every year, like vehicle crashes or drowning, ... ANNE FRANCHAK These are not hazards that kill thousands of children every year, like vehicle crashes or drowning, ... JAN STEGELMAN The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,... C. JOYBELL C. A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Life is as precious to us as it is for an animal. An animal is as loving, caring, and kind to her ch... DEBASISH MRIDHA He said now you're gonna have colored baby chicks aren't you?. He made it a point to come get 'em. M... KAY JOHNSTON If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie T... JAMES HOWE Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie, ... JAMES HOWE Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals wh... DREXEL DEAL I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Children have a good number of teeth by the time they reach a year old. Their moms usually have them... DIANE THOMAS It is an old and cherished tradition of our country that everyone should be free to go about their b... LORD BINGHAM The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolu... BETTY FRIEDAN One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird... CHRIS CRUTCHER I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is ... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Hank Green's Secrets of Productivity: 1.) I have convinced myself that if I am not using ... HANK GREEN When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was really surprised by it. This case is about a 12-year-old boy. This is a child. We need to reme... MARIANN SAMAHA So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is ... ANNE LAMOTT Our police department keeps a pretty close watch with their gang-intervention officers, and the poli... TERRY ABBOTT When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. TOM BROKAW When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old th... RAYMOND CRUZ We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of... RICHARD DAWKINS Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child...... MOTHER TERESA She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th... HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ... HARPER LEE The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ... HARPER LEE You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. HARPER LEE I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik... HARPER LEE Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea... HARPER LEE Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. HARPER LEE You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you c... HARPER LEE Now, 75 years [after HARPER LEE Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)...... HARPER LEE They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions...... HARPER LEE Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched hi... HARPER LEE Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. HARPER LEE I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. HARPER LEE Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn... HARPER LEE It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was... HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug... HARPER LEE She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there... HARPER LEE As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo... HARPER LEE The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. HARPER LEE I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think no... HARPER LEE I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n... HARPER LEE As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ... HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gon... HARPER LEE Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. HARPER LEE It's not time to worry yet HARPER LEE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE Things are always better in the morning. HARPER LEE Pass the damn ham, please. HARPER LEE You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no m... HARPER LEE Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our ... HARPER LEE I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout HARPER LEE We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple. HARPER LEE If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, w... HARPER LEE Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to wi... HARPER LEE When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. C... HARPER LEE It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor t... HARPER LEE You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't yo... HARPER LEE With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. HARPER LEE Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gar... HARPER LEE People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. HARPER LEE Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll... HARPER LEE Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. HARPER LEE People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. HARPER LEE I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g... HARPER LEE Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts. HARPER LEE Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think t... HARPER LEE I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g... HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks, Ive got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnt abide... HARPER LEE Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. HARPER LEE Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. "Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's n... HARPER LEE They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w... HARPER LEE A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but h... HARPER LEE One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. HARPER LEE Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. 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HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abid... HARPER LEE You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s fa... HARPER LEE Если ты человек вежливый, говори с другими не про то, чт... HARPER LEE Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter. HARPER LEE But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave yo... HARPER LEE Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets... HARPER LEE Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing... HARPER LEE If you did not want much, there was plenty. HARPER LEE I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you. HARPER LEE She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... HARPER LEE As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ... HARPER LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walkin... HARPER LEE I can't beat you, I can't join you. HARPER LEE The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. HARPER LEE I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children. HARPER LEE No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just get... HARPER LEE Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, ... HARPER LEE Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time. HARPER LEE When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from th... HARPER LEE Ladies pick funny things to be proud of. HARPER LEE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. 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Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m... HARPER LEE She was the bravest person I ever knew. HARPER LEE I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getti... HARPER LEE ...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the... HARPER LEE Things are never as bad as they seem. HARPER LEE Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you beg... HARPER LEE Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not a... HARPER LEE You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was bo... HARPER LEE As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place h... HARPER LEE Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad. HARPER LEE Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my ha... HARPER LEE Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and ... HARPER LEE You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. HARPER LEE You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” HARPER LEE If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Someti... HARPER LEE Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read HARPER LEE When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. "What are you s... HARPER LEE Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. 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You can't return from... BEN HARPER The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover. BEN HARPER It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or... BEN HARPER If you don't like my fire, Then don't come around Cause I'm gonna burn one down. BEN HARPER Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a... BEN HARPER Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a... BEN HARPER It's so hard to so, so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away. BEN HARPER You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now i know I've made the mistake in the past. But n... BEN HARPER I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would comm... HILL HARPER That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don... STEPHEN HARPER For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever... BOB HARPER Grandma Ruthie and her sister Jettie hadn't spoken a civil word in about fifteen years. Their last e... MOLLY HARPER because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Bost... MOLLY HARPER CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you ha... BOB HARPER My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you. BEN HARPER I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there i... STEPHEN HARPER I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get... ROY HARPER Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's ... BEN HARPER Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - '... HILL HARPER When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati... BEN HARPER Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or... BRYCE HARPER I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. BRYCE HARPER It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fix... BRYCE HARPER My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continen... HILL HARPER The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ... BEN HARPER Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me n... HILL HARPER I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of... BEN HARPER I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal... BEN HARPER I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local p... MOLLY HARPER