“Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Heck, can’t you even try to see it my way? You’ve got children of your own, but I’m older than you. When… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“They try to strike terror in Southern mothers, lest their children grow up to fall in love with Negroes. If they didn’t… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ’em to their senses, didn’t it?” said Atticus. “That proves something —that a gang… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Scout: Why are you entrusting us your deepest secret? Mr. Raymond: Because you’re children and you can understand it.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Jem,” I asked, “what’s a mixed child?” “Half white, half colored. You’ve seen ’em, Scout. You know that red-kinky-headed one that delivers… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips.… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Daylight...In my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephenie Crawford crossed the street to tell… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra.… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
