TKAM Quotes

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

“Thank you for my children, Arthur.”

"...we're paying him the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right."

“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain,...and our lives.

"I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do."

"...they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.”

"In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson.”

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, ...but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

“Hey, Boo.”

“Let the dead bury the dead.”

"why Boo stayed shut up in the house all this time- it's because he wants to stay inside.”

"...I’m still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife.”

There ain't one thing I can do "so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.”

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.”

- if you fancy gentlemen aint gonna do nothin about it, then you're just a bunch of cowards!

“The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him... it just makes me sick.”

"Miss Jean Louise, Stand up. You're father's passin'.”

"I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more 'n the rest of 'em.”