TKAM Quotes

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

• Scout

• Dill

• Jem

• Walter

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high an' mighty.

• Aunt Alexandra

• Calpurnia

• Atticus

• Miss Maudie

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

• Dill

• Jem

• Scout

• Walter

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

• Miss Maudie

• Aunt Rachel

• Atticus

• Calpurnia

Reason I can’t pass the first grade, is I’ve had to stay out ever’ spring an’ help with the choppin'.

• Walter

• Burris

• Cecil

• Little Chuck Little

Report and be damned to ye! Ain’t no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born c’n make me do nothin‘! You ain’t makin’ me go nowhere, missus. You just remember that, you ain’t makin‘ me go nowhere!

• Walter

• Little Chuck Little

• Cecil Jacobs

• Burris

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

• Miss Maudie

• Atticus

• Miss Stephanie

• Uncle Jack

What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best.

• Miss Stephanie

• Calpurnia

• Miss Maudie

• Aunt Rachel

So it took an eight-year-old to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it? That proves something -- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

• Miss Maudie

• Aunt Alexandra

• Miss Stephanie

• Atticus

The thing is, what I'm trying to say is -- they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you’ve - got - it - go- play - with - it.

• Scout

• Jem

• Dill

• Walter