Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top’s growing back out. Next time you’ll know how to do it right, won’t you? You’ll pull it up by the roots, won’t you?
Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.
You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final, pase lo que pase.
Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.
Of course he shouldn’t, but he’ll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom – Atticus.
Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an‘ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home.
His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?
There are just some kind of men who- who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Its when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win but sometimes you do.
Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird wouldn’t it?
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries.
I wondered if anybody had ever called her “ma’am,” or “Miss Mayella” in her life; probably not, as she took offense to routine courtesy. What on earth was her life like? I soon found out.
Adevaratul curaj este sa stii caesti invins de la bun inceput, dar sa nu renunti totusi la lupta.
He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. – Charles Lamb.