Quotes About Patience

Do you itch, Jem?" I asked as politely as I could. He did not answer. "Come on in, Jem," I said. "After while.

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.

Well, your father and I decided it was time I came to stay with you for a while." "For a while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances.

First," he said dispassionately, "hold your tongue. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him. Smile a lot. Make him feel big. Tell him how wonderful he is, and wait on him.

or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

Keep calm and consult Jack

Atticus said if I paid no attention to him, Jem would come down. Atticus was right.

why, if we followed our feelings all the time we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining

You think about that,' Miss Maudie was saying. 'It was no accident. I was sittin' there on the porch last night, waiting. I waited and waited to see you all come down the sidewalk and as I waited I thought. Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win, but he'd the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we're making a step - it's just a baby-step, but it's a step.

That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?

Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is.

For a while' in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years.

Relax, son," Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. "Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out.

Hush, Scout; It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.

Jem, she's old and ill. You can't hold her responsible for what she says and does. Of course, I'd rather she'd have said it to me than to either of you, but we can't always have our 'druthers.

That was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes 'em just a few minutes. This time—" he broke off and looked at us. "You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin' for an outright acquittal.

Calpurnia was to blame for this. It kept me from driving her crazy on rainy days, I guess. She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible underneath. If I reproduced her penmanship satisfactorily, she rewarded me with an open-faced sandwich of bread and butter and sugar. In Calpurnia's teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me. "Everybody

while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. "Jem's growing

Non è necessario sfoggiare bravura, non è signorile; e poi alla gente non piace vedersi attorno persone che ne sanno più di loro: li irrita. Non riuscirai mai a cambiare le persone limitandoti a parlare bene, bisogna che siano loro a desiderare di imparare; se non lo desiderano, non puoi far niente: non ti resta che tenere la bocca chiusa o parlare come loro.

Relax, son, Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

I need a watch man, to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference. I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is