Quotes from Harper Lee

My memory stirred.

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longing we sometimes felt each other feel. With him life was routine; without him life was unbearable.

Miško paukštis ? mišk? ir ži?ri

People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

el que hayamos perdido cien años antes de empezar no es motivo para que no intentemos vencer

How'd you like for her to come live with us?" I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Tat?l ei spunea c? e nevoie de cel puÈ›in 5 ani s? ajungi s? cunoÈ™ti dreptul dup? ce ai terminat facultatea: f?ceai economie doi ani, înv??ai regulile pentru elaborarea pledoariilor în Alabama înc? doi, reciteai Biblia È™i pe Shakespeare în cel de-al cincilea. Dup? care erai preg?tit s? faci fa?? în orice condiÈ›ii.

he always told his daughter the rest of it, quietly and solemnly, but Jean Louise sometimes thought she detected an unmistakably profane glint in Atticus Finch's eyes, or was it merely the light hitting his glasses? She never knew.

the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

Seni seviyorum. Nas?l istersen.

Now, at this very minute, a political philosophy foreign to it is being pressed on the South, and the South's not ready for it—we're finding ourselves in the same deep waters. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons. I hope to God it'll be a comparatively bloodless Reconstruction this time.

Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;

If you did not want so much, there was plenty.

Ništa zapravo nije zastrašuju?e osim u knjigama.

Get this in your head right now, you ain't pregnant and you never were. That ain't the way it is." "Well if I ain't, then what am I?" "With all your book learnin', you are the most ignorant child I ever did see . . ." Her voice trailed off. ". . . but I don't reckon you really ever had a chance.

I do my best to love everyday

You must have lived it. If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure you will not be caught out by him again. But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I'm nearly out of my mind.

Do you know what a compromise is? -Bending the law? -No, an agreement reached by mutual concessions.

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle

I heard something once. I heard a slogan and it stuck in my head. I heard 'Equal rights for all; special privileges for none' and to me it didn't mean anything but what it said.

Atticus dice que Dios ama a las personas como cada uno se ama a sí mismo...

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer.

And so they went, down the row of laughing women, around the diningroom, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing Calpurnia.