"When a man spends his relief checks on……" — Harper Lee
"When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains."
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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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More Checks Quotes
This quote is filed under Checks Quotes,
one of 1,018 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for…
— Frank Abagnale
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I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as…
— Michele Bachmann
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One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree…
— Charles Barkley
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the…
— Gary Bauer
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things…
— Halle Berry
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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue…
— Mary J. Blige
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You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that…
— Kobe Bryant
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Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.
— Jeb Bush
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that…
— Lord Byron
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it…
— Kirk Cameron
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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