Quotes About Observation

If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.

I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.

She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

Io ne tirai la conclusione che la gente era stramba, e basta.

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.

But I don't get the connection. Dr. Finch put his hands on the table. 'That's because you haven't looked,' he said. 'You've never opened your eyes.

Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree.

When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. "What are you shooting at?" "Miss Maudie's rear end." Atticus turned and saw my generous target bending over her bushes. He pushed his hat to the back of his head and crossed the street. "Maudie," he called, "I thought I'd better warn you. You're in considerable peril.

I lay on my stomach, reached down and poked him. He rolled up. Then, feeling safe, I suppose, he slowly unrolled. He travelled a few inches in his hundred legs and I touched him again. He rolled up. Feeling sleepy, I decided to end things. My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke.

Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. It was impossible to

Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food: his eyes, as blue as Dill Harris's, were red-rimmed and watery.

She sat there in front of me and she didn't see me, she saw white folks.

She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her.

Miško paukštis ? mišk? ir ži?ri

he always told his daughter the rest of it, quietly and solemnly, but Jean Louise sometimes thought she detected an unmistakably profane glint in Atticus Finch's eyes, or was it merely the light hitting his glasses? She never knew.

We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.

Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.

Well, said Miss Stephanie, I thought I might just look in at the courthouse , to see what Atticus's up to. Better be careful he doesn't hand you a subpoena. We asked Miss Maudie to elucidate: she said Miss Stephanie seemed to know so much about the case she might as well be called on to testify.

Mr. Raymond said, '... - you haven't seen enough of this world yet. You haven't even seen this town, but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse.

I am a stranger at a cocktail party.

Dr. Finch to observe absently and audibly one Sunday: We asked for bread and they gave us a Stone. [Rev.] Mr. Stone had long been suspected of liberal tendencies.

Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That?

I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the tree-house looking over at the school yard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories. I longed to join them.

suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing the same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said they knew as much law as the Chief Justice, from long years of observation.