I just don’t like my world disturbed without some warning.
His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state’s generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.
The only remedy for this is not to let it beat you.
Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que la batalla esta perdida de antemano, lo intenta a pesar de todo y lucha hasta el final.
I thought Mr. Cunningham was a friend of ours. You told me a long time ago he was.” “He still is.” “But last night he wanted to hurt you.” Atticus placed his fork beside his knife and pushed his plate aside. “Mr. Cunningham’s basically a good man,” he said, “he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us.” Jem.
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.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it.
He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.
She printed DEMOCRACY in large letters. ‘Democracy,’ she said. ‘Does anybody have a definition?’ ‘Us,’ somebody said. I raised my hand, remembering an old campaign slogan Atticus had once told me about. ‘What do you think it means, Jean Louise?’ ‘“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!”,’ I quoted.
No I’m not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.
And don’t you fret yourself about anything – why, if we followed our feelings all the time we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails.
I need a watchman 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.
Atticus, are we going to win it?” “No, honey.” “Then, why – ” “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,” Atticus said.
Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.
What Boo Rdley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him.
Men in this age have turned the Other Woman into a psychiatrist’s couch, and at far less expense, too.
Dr. Finch had drunk so long and so deep of his heady brew that his being was shot through with curious mannerisms and odd exclamations.
Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk saling membenci?
Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary.
I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.