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 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, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t 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.
HARPER LEE Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white...
HARPER LEE People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subj...
HARPER LEE There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned t...
HARPER LEE Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o-clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes...
HARPER LEE I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...
HARPER LEE I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE Hey Boo.
HARPER LEE From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
HARPER LEE In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's ...
HARPER LEE I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down ...
HARPER LEE Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer...
HARPER LEE Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ...
HARPER LEE First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with ...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE "“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in th...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back...
HARPER LEE Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
HARPER LEE They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advanci...
HARPER LEE You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most import...
HARPER LEE всякая толпа состоит из людей.
HARPER LEE So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a g...
HARPER LEE When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
HARPER LEE I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s w...
HARPER LEE That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
HARPER LEE Dill was off again. 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. Folks.
HARPER LEE I don't see why I have to when he doesn't.
Then listen.
HARPER LEE (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and e...
HARPER LEE Kış günleri beni saatlerce ağaçevde oturmuş okul bahçesini seyrederken görebilirdiniz, Jem'i...
HARPER LEE [T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when th...
HARPER LEE I'm painfully middle class.
VALERIE HARPER I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm ...
VALERIE HARPER I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage...
VALERIE HARPER Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you...
VALERIE HARPER I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
VALERIE HARPER We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
VALERIE HARPER We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
VALERIE HARPER Life does not owe me a shred.
VALERIE HARPER I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'...
BRYCE HARPER I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to...
HILL HARPER I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra...
MOLLY HARPER Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt...
ROY HARPER I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite...
MOLLY HARPER You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER It's a privilege to have a concealed weapons permit. Having no oversight is scary. We especially wan...
ADRIA HARPER By the time the public gets to see the records, it's already too late.
ADRIA HARPER I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowi...
ADRIA HARPER This kicks it off with a bang. The public was invited and now they are being told they can't attend,...
ADRIA HARPER It's an issue of public importance that's pretty critical at this period.
ADRIA HARPER It's unfortunate that public officials feel that the public is a hindrance is getting their work don...
ADRIA HARPER To simply muzzle someone because they're being critical of what their public servants are doing is r...
ADRIA HARPER Public records are critical for the public's oversight. It's all potentially relevant and useful inf...
ADRIA HARPER Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market fo...
MOLLY HARPER Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, ...
RALPH HARPER We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of ou...
STEPHEN HARPER I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of In...
GREGG HARPER I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a pun...
MOLLY HARPER My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car th...
HILL HARPER We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
STEPHEN HARPER Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If...
STEPHEN HARPER Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you a...
BRYCE HARPER My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' we...
HILL HARPER But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of mu...
BEN HARPER As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulfu...
BEN HARPER It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. 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