TKM QUOTES

"There’s some folks who don’t eat like us, but you ain’t called on to contradict ’em at the table when they don’t."

Calpurnia

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

Atticus Finch

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Scout Finch

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."

Miss Maudie

"It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Atticus Finch

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."

Judge Taylor

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."

Atticus Finch

"Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself."

Atticus Finch

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

Atticus Finch

"Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand."

Atticus Finch

"I wanted you to see what real courage is."

Atticus Finch

"Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute."

Atticus Finch

"As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

Atticus Finch

"There’s just one kind of folks. Folks."

Scout Finch

"Maycomb’s usual disease."

Atticus Finch

"You ain’t never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."

Atticus Finch

"Atticus, he was real nice." / "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

Scout Finch and Atticus Finch

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."

Miss Maudie

"Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking."

Mr. Raymond

"Bad language is a stage all children go through."

Atticus Finch

"It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name."

Atticus Finch

"Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks."

Scout Finch

"I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time."

Scout Finch

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us."

Miss Maudie

"It’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?"

Scout Finch

"His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me."

Scout Finch

"The witnesses for the state… have presented themselves to you in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted."

Atticus Finch

"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal."

Atticus Finch

"She was white, and she tempted a Negro."

Atticus Finch

"A court is only as sound as its jury."

Atticus Finch

"I think there’s been just one kind of folks. Folks."

Scout Finch

"You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute."

Atticus Finch

"Hey, Mr. Cunningham. Don’t you remember me?"

Scout Finch

"Thank you for my children, Arthur."

Atticus Finch

"Will you take me home?"

Boo Radley

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between."

Miss Maudie

"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension."

Scout Finch

"The summer that had begun so long ago had ended."

Scout Finch