Best quotes from to kill a mockingbird

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and quickly became a best-seller. To Kill a Mockingbird is considered standard reading for millions of young people.

The book is about a girl named Scout growing up during the Depression in Alabama, and the things she learns about people and life over the course of two years.

The little girl had a quick mind so she grasped most lessons from her father, Atticus, and the rest from her own experience. The book is filled with life lessons and it brilliantly depicts how people can develop ugly behaviors towards others, because of a series of misconceptions they get exposed to while being young.

Scout sees for herself that even the justice system is tainted by unfairness and at only 8 years she grasps a valuable lesson about empathy— we can only understand others by putting ourselves in their shoes.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and it inspired a generation of young lawyers during the civil rights movement.

In 1962, the book was made into a memorable movie, with Gregory Peck winning an Academy Award for his portrayal of Atticus.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.

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

Real courage...

It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around it.

Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person, just enough comfort, to themselves.

She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it.

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

Neighbors bring food with death and

flowers with sickness and little things

in between. Boo was our neighbor. He

gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch

and chain, a pair of good luck pennies,

and our lives.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

What good are. Wings

Without the courage to fly.

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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a

person's conscience."

Summer was our best season.

It was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat. It was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.