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“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”

“Sir?”

“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest JP court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Io ne tirai la conclusione che la gente era stramba, e basta.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“His food doesn't stick going down, does it?”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram moći živjeti sam sa sobom.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Keberanian adalah saat kau tahu akan kalah
sebelum memulai, tetapi kau tetap memulai
dan merampungkannya, apa pun yang terjadi”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“What happened after that had a dreamlike quality: in a dream I saw the jury return, moving like underwater swimmers, and Judge Taylor's voice came from far away, and was tiny. I saw something only a lawyer's child could be expected to see, could be expected to watch for, and it was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Să fii curajos înseamnă să ştii că eşti pierdut înainte de a întreprinde ceva.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Yetişkinlerin bakışlarından nefret ediyorum. İnsan kendini suçlu hissediyor.”
― Harper Lee, Bülbülü Öldürmek

“It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your 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.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The cold water embraced hime like no woman ever could”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The apple does not fall far from the tree.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It’s like bein’ a caterpillar in a cocoon, that’s what it is ... Like somethin’ asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that’s what they seemed like”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“She was the bravest person I ever knew.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those thing... Atticus, he was real nice.."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sıfatları çıkarırsan gerçekler kalır.”
― Harper Lee, Bülbülü Öldürmek

“Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Bah, no es así. La gente saca niños el uno de otro. Pero hay ese hombre, además... ese hombre que tiene una infinidad de niños esperando que les despierten; él les da vida con un soplo...
Dill estaba disparado otra vez. Por su cabeza soñadora flotaban cosas hermosas. Podía leer dos libros mientras yo leía uno, pero prefería la magia de sus propias invenciones. Sabía sumar y restar más de prisa que el rayo, pero prefería su mundo entre dos luces, un mundo en el que los niños dormían, esperando que fueran a buscarlos como lirios matutinos. Hablando, hablando se dormía a sí mismo, y me arrastraba a mí con él, pero en la quietud de su isla de niebla se levantó la imagen confusa de una casa gris con unas puertas pardas, tristes.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Bırakalım bu kez ölüyü ölü gömsün Bay Finch... bırakın ölüyü ölüler gömsün.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“всякая толпа состоит из людей.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird