Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people a... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"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."
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."