❝ ░ TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE; STARTER SENTENCES.
❛ 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. ❜
❛ Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ❜
❛ 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, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ❜
❛ People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. ❜
❛ The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. ❜
❛ _____ told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts. ❜
❛ I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. ❜
❛ They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. ❜
❛ Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. ❜
❛ Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another. ❜
❛ People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. ❜
❛ With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. ❜
❛ 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. ❜
❛ When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. ❜
❛ It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. ❜
❛ Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. ❜
❛ If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? ❜
❛ We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple. ❜
❛ I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. ❜
❛ You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t. ❜
❛ Pass the damn ham, please. ❜
❛ Things are always better in the morning. ❜
❛ There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one. ❜
❛ Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. ❜
❛ Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? ❜
❛ As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. ❜
❛ That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? ❜
❛ There is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. ❜
❛ There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. ❜
❛ Things are never as bad as they seem. ❜
❛ There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, _____. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That’s never possible. ❜
❛ Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. ❜
❛ I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. ❜
❛ I’m little but I’m old. ❜
❛ _____ had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. ❜
❛ I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you. ❜
❛ People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them. ❜
❛ You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live. ❜
❛ 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. ❜
❛ They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life. ❜
❛ I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. ❜
❛ Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal. There is a tendency for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. ❜
❛ No, everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’. ❜
❛ Talking to _____ gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. ❜
❛ Finders were keepers unless title was proven. ❜
❛ Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. ❜
❛ You can pet him, _____. He’s asleep… ❜
❛ 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. ❜
❛ I just thought you’d like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin’ I can do it. ❜
❛ Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. ❜
❛ Naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. ❜
❛ Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. ❜
❛ Let the dead bury the dead. ❜
❛ Where are your pants, son? ❜
❛ So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. ❜
❛ The apple does not fall far from the tree. ❜
❛ She was the bravest person I ever knew. ❜
❛ _____, if you don’t hush, I’ll knock you bowlegged. ❜
❛ Lawyers, I suppose were once children, too. ❜
❛ Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are. ❜
❛ You aren’t thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn’t it? ❜
