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Atticus Quotes by Harper Lee
- Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
- Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really…
- Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
- Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
- When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A…
- You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.…
- Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough…
- 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,…
- hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch
- When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .†His…
- Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
- Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus!…
- Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond…
- I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
- For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son…
- I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.
- We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
More Atticus Quotes
- I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte
- Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. — Harper Lee
- 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
- Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. — Harper Lee
- Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee
- When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in… — Harper Lee
- You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em… — Harper Lee