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Him Quotes by Harper Lee
- My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no…
- 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…
- Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?†“Turtles can't feel, stupid,†said Jem.…
- That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
- You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...
- Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a…
- 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…
- No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to…
- When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot…
- Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
- With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
- We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
- When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .†His…
- Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and…
- 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!…
- When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot…
- If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a…
- I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi