QUOTES ABOUT INNOCENCE IN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

“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 corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” – Atticus Finch

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” – Scout Finch

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” – Scout Finch

“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.” – Atticus Finch

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Atticus Finch

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” – Atticus Finch

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” – Atticus Finch

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Scout Finch

“Things are never as bad as they seem.” – Miss Maudie

“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” – Atticus Finch

“You can’t really get to know a person until you get inside of their skin and walk around in it.” – Atticus Finch

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” – Scout Finch FAMOUS SHAKESPEARE QUOTES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

“Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” – Atticus Finch

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Atticus Finch

“There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.” – Atticus Finch

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch

“It ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that—it just makes me sick.” – Tom Robinson

“I mean I got no mother and slightly grieved, Councilman, if you‘ll concede the slight abandonment of Miss Maudie Atkinson’s yard, thereby ruling, in sum, for his debt to society for his crime. I mean yes I do, sir.” – Miss Caroline and Scout Finch

“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.” – Atticus Finch

“There are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.” – Miss Maudie

“When I went back, they were folded across the fence, like they were expectin’ me.” – Scout Finch

“It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do.” – Aunt Alexandra

“Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.” – Atticus Finch