A licking hurts but it doesn’t last.
Cry about the simple hell people give other people – without even thinking.
Colonel Maycomb’s misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.
You’re no better. You’re no damn better. You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies.
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.
Her world was at its best when her time came to leave it.
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.
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.
Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes:.
I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.
Her uncle could annoy the hell out of her when he chose, apparently he was choosing to do so now, and she resented it. “Nothing.” He sat down, took off his glasses, and returned them to his vest pocket. He spoke deliberately. “Baby,” he said, “all over the South your father and men like your father are fighting a sort of rearguard, delaying action to preserve a certain kind of philosophy that’s almost gone down the drain –.
There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.
It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we’d drink it anyways.
Don’t argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him.
You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.
One could be a ray of sunshine in pants as well. -Scout Finch.
Little Chuck grinned broadly. “There ain’t no need to fear a cootie, ma’am. Ain’t you ever seen one? Now don’t you be afraid, you just go back to your desk and teach us some more.
No votee, no eatee.
I thought women liked to be thought strange and mysterious.” “No, they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who’s not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel.