--- title: "13 Kill Mockingbird Quotes By Harper Lee" description: "13 Kill Mockingbird quotes by Harper Lee. Plus more from Harper Lee and more Kill Mockingbird sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/harper-lee-451_kill_to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin-747615_747615.png" --- > [“To kill a mockingbird is a sin”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/harper-lee-451_kill_to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin-747615_747615.png) > [Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/remember-it-s-a-sin-to-kill-a-mockingbird/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/harper-lee-451_bird_remember-it-s-a-sin-to-kill-a-mockingbir_593062.png) > [Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/shoot-all-the-blue-jays-you-want-if-you-can-hit-em-but-remember-it-s/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac1/harper-lee-451_bird_shoot-all-the-blue-jays-you-want-if-you_1704445.png) > [ “Now, 75 years \[after To Kill a Mockingbird \], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/now-75-years-after-to-kill-a-mockingbird-in-an-abundant-society-where/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3af/harper-lee-451_book_now-75-years-after-to-kill-a-mockingbird_1589251.png) > [“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~Harper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/why-reasonable-people-go-stark-raving-mad-when-anything-involving-a/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/harper-lee-451_atticus_why-reasonable-people-go-stark-raving-ma_890231.jpg) > [“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-d-rather-you-shot-at-tin-cans-in-the-back-yard-but-i-know-you-ll-go/) [harper lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d35/harper-lee-451_bird_i-d-rather-you-shot-at-tin-cans-in-the-b_878981.png) > [Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/mockingbirds-don-t-do-one-thing-but-make-music-for-us-to-enjoy-they/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/harper-lee-451_bird_mockingbirds-don-t-do-one-thing-but-make_2942904.jpg) > [So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/so-it-took-an-eight-year-old-child-to-bring-em-to-their-senses-that-2/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ec/harper-lee-451_animal_so-it-took-an-eight-year-old-child-to-br_2943804.png) > [“To the Richmond Leader in 1966 when the school board banned her novel: “Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/to-the-richmond-leader-in-1966-when-the-school-board-banned-her-novel/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/harper-lee-451_books_to-the-richmond-leader-in-1966-when-the_635078.png) > [“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/shoot-all-the-bluejays-you-want-if-you-can-hit-em-but-remember-it-s-a/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cba/harper-lee-451_bird_shoot-all-the-bluejays-you-want-if-you-c_1448178.jpg) > [“I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-d-rather-you-shot-at-tin-cans-in-the-back-yard-but-i-know-you-ll-go-2/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f88/harper-lee-451_bird_i-d-rather-you-shot-at-tin-cans-in-the-b_2573763.png) > [I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-remember-when-my-daddy-gave-me-that-gun-he-told-me-that-i-should/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bb/harper-lee-451_backyards_i-remember-when-my-daddy-gave-me-that-gu_116770.png) > [“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/atticus-said-to-jem-one-day-i-d-rather-you-shot-at-tin-cans-in-the/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/048/harper-lee-451_bird_atticus-said-to-jem-one-day-i-d-rather-y_482099.jpg) ## More by Harper Lee > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/no-jury-in-this-part-of-the-world-s-going-to-say-we-think-you-re/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/that-proves-something-that-a-gang-of-wild-animals-can-be-stopped/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-wanted-you-to-see-something-about-her-i-wanted-you-to-see-what-real/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/any-writer-worth-his-salt-writes-to-please-himself-it-s-a-self/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [“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’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/folks-don-t-like-to-have-somebody-around-knowin-more-than-they-do-it/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [ “...\[Summer\] was a thousand colors in a parched landscape...” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/summer-was-a-thousand-colors-in-a-parched-landscape/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/it-s-never-an-insult-to-be-called-what-somebody-thinks-is-a-bad-name/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-wonder-how-much-of-the-day-i-spend-just-callin-after-you/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/writing-is-something-you-ll-never-learn-in-any-university-or-at-any/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/to-begin-with-this-case-should-never-have-come-to-trial-the-state-has/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/naw-jem-i-think-that-there-is-just-one-kind-of-folks-folks-jen-turned/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/the-course-of-english-literature-would-have-been-decidedly-different/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-would-like-to-be-the-chronicler-of-something-that-i-think-is-going/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/the-gum-looked-fresh-i-sniffed-it-and-it-smelled-all-right-i-licked/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) > [I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/i-just-thought-you-d-like-to-know-i-can-read-you-got-anything-needs/) [Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kill-mockingbird/harper-lee/#itemlist", "name": "13 Kill Mockingbird Quotes By Harper Lee", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To kill a mockingbird is a sin”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harper Lee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/harper-lee-451_kill_to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin-747615_747615.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/harper-lee-451_kill_to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin-747615_747615.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/harper-lee-451_kill_to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-a-sin-747615_747615.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To kill a mockingbird is a sin” — Harper Lee", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harper Lee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/remember-it-s-a-sin-to-kill-a-mockingbird/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/harper-lee-451_bird_remember-it-s-a-sin-to-kill-a-mockingbir_593062.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/harper-lee-451_bird_remember-it-s-a-sin-to-kill-a-mockingbir_593062.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/harper-lee-451_bird_remember-it-s-a-sin-to-kill-a-mockingbir_593062.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” — Harper Lee", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harper Lee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/shoot-all-the-blue-jays-you-want-if-you-can-hit-em-but-remember-it-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac1/harper-lee-451_bird_shoot-all-the-blue-jays-you-want-if-you_1704445.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac1/harper-lee-451_bird_shoot-all-the-blue-jays-you-want-if-you_1704445.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac1/harper-lee-451_bird_shoot-all-the-blue-jays-you-want-if-you_1704445.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” — Harper Lee", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. 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