Quotes from Harper Lee

Several of the younger boys with whom she had been on eye-gouging terms only a few years ago made self-conscious conversation with her.

Kartais mane labai negražiai pavadina, bet žinok, vaikeli, jei kas nors ant tav?s burnoja, tai dar nereiškia, kad tu esi ?žeistas. Blogas žodis tav?s nežemina, tik parodo, koks apgail?tinas yra besikeikiantis žmogus.

Haints, Hot Steams, incantations, secret signs had vanished with our years as mist with sunrise.

That was the only time I heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something. So I asked Miss Maudie about it. Your father's right, she said. 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.

Courage … [is] when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what

Don't you feel yourself about anything - why, if we followed our feeling all the time we'll be like cats chasing their tails.

they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn't it?' 'She wants a father instead of a husband, then.' 'That's what it amounts to,' she said. 'The books are right on the score.

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbors was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.

Il m'arrive de trouver que je suis un très mauvais père, mais ils n'ont que moi. Jem regarde d'abord comment je me comporte avant de regarder quelqu'un d'autre. J'ai essayé de vivre de façon à pouvoir soutenir son regard...

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday 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.

We are bound by a common anguish.

draugams tav?s reikia, kai jie klysta, o ne tada, kai b?na teis?s...

Miss Maudie puzzled me. With most of her possessions gone and her beloved yard a shambles, she still took a lively and cordial interest in Jem's and my affairs.

Kind, du darfst dich nie beleidigt fühlen, wenn jemand dir etwas nachruft, was er als Schimpfnamen betrachtet. Das zeigt nur, was für ein armseliger Mensch der andere ist, es verletzt nicht.

La historia se esta repitiendo, no hay duda, tan seguro como que el hombre es hombre, la historia será el último sitio donde la gente busque respuestas.

Peki, niçin bize en gizli s?rr?n? açm??t?? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlars?n?z.

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

the answer is she knows I know she tries. That's what makes the difference.

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

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples 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.

Vor allem, Scout', sagte er, 'musst du einen ganz einfachen Trick lernen, dann wirst du viel besser mit Menschen aller Art auskommen. Man kann einen anderen nur richtig verstehen, wenn man die Dinge von seinem Gesichtspunkt aus beachtet

The bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of one man

He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.