"You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them."

"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 shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children."

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

"Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along."

"There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em."

"Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too."

"Scout, I m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you re gettin more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them."

"Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him."

"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep."

"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them."

"Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?"

"I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing."

"You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

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

"Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing."

"I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."

"You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."

"Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."

"Nothin’s real scary except in books."

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."

"I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason."

"Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own."

"They're ugly, but those are the facts of life."

"I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read"

"Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean."

"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."

"Autumn was her happiest season."

"Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live."

"Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."

"Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases."

"Finders were keepers unless title was proven."

"I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to."

"In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama"

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep..."

"Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."

"Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…"

"I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea."

"I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it."

"Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with."

"When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge."

"Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street."

"Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets."

"I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody..."