Quotes from Harper Lee

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for" "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We generally get the juries we deserve.

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need some more of you.

He never counted what it cost him; he never looked back.

Hrabrost je kad znas da si potucen i prije no sto si krenuo u borbu, ali ti ipak kreces i uprkos svemu stremis cilju. Rijetko kad pobjedjujes ali nekad pobijedis.

Heck, can't you even try to see it my way? You've got children of your own, but I'm older than you. When mine are grown I'll be an old man if I'm still around, but right now I'm—if they don't trust me they won't trust anybody. Jem and Scout know what happened. If they hear of me saying downtown something different happened—Heck, I won't have them any more. I can't live one way in town and another way in my home.

Da bih mogao zivjeti sa drugima, moram prvo zivjeti sam sa sobom. Jedina stvar koja ne pripada pod pravila vecine jeste covjekova savjest.

That proves something—that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking.

With her head on his shoulder, Jean Louise was content. It might work after all, she thought. But I am not domestic. I don't even know how to run a cook. What do ladies say to each other when they go visiting? I'd have to wear a hat. I'd drop the babies and kill 'em.

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom. It's the same thing. Humility.

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess. When she was calm enough to listen, she considered that a cruel practical joke had been played upon her: she must now go into a world of femininity, a world she despised, could not comprehend nor defend herself against, a world that did not want her.

Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.

Ä°çgüdüleri henüz yok olmam??. Biraz büyüsün, ne aÄŸlar ne hastalan?r. Bekle biraz büyüsün. Ä°ÅŸlerin yanl?? olduÄŸunun az biraz fark?na var?r belki, ama aÄŸlamaz. Ne için aÄŸlamam Bay Raymond? Ä°nsanlar?n insanlara çektirdiklerine aÄŸlamazs?n.

You're no better. You're no damn better. You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies.

Besides, nothin's real scary except in books.

It's just that I'm so afraid of making a mess of being married to the wrong man—the wrong kind for me, I mean. I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Her world was at its best when her time came to leave it.

but you know they're still doing it. Stoppin' 'em just made 'em go underground. Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready," Hester said.

Hay hombres tan ocupados en acongojarse por el otro mundo que no han aprendido a vivir en este.

Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty." Atticus's

Maycomb County's home to me, honey. It's the best place I know to live in. I've built up a good record here from the time I was a kid. Maycomb knows me, and I know Maycomb. Maycomb trusts me, and I trust Maycomb. My bread and butter comes from this town, and Maycomb's given me a good living. But Maycomb asks certain things in return. It asks you to lead a reasonably clean life, it asks that you join the Kiwanis club, to go to church on Sunday, it asks you to conform to its ways ---