"The book to read is not the one……" — Harper Lee
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
Harper Lee has 189 quotes on this site.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of…
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is…
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we…
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who…
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms,…
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
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Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense…
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to…
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death…
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for…
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with…
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood…
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
— William Blake
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
— Elayne Boosler
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being…
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