Mockingbird Quotes
40 quotes by 25 authors
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Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds!…
— Homer
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I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,…
— Elizabeth Spires
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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle…
— Anna Quindlen
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
— Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most…
— Mark Mothersbaugh
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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can…
— Ridley Pearson
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My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his…
— Mary-Louise Parker
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I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill…
— Sissy Spacek
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Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
— Robert Ardrey
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I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into…
— Chris Crutcher
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If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.
— Eminem
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
— Nancy Grace
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I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which…
— John Krasinski
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no…
— Tom Robbins
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I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film…
— Harper Lee
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Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could…
— Harper Lee
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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The…
— Bertrand Russell
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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,…
— Harper Lee
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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, they don’t do…
— Harper Lee
Who Wrote These Mockingbird Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 40 Mockingbird Quotes as follows: