Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One d... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."