Jem And Scout Quotes

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

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.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... 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.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.