Kill A Mockingbird Memorable Quotes

Things are always better in the morning.

hold your head high and keep those fists down – Atticus Finch

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

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

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

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ’em to their senses…. That proves something – that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human.

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.

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.

I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.