To Kill a Mockingbird Flashcards
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started…..
Is no reason for us not to try to win
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.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule
is a person’s conscience
I think there’s just one kind of folks.
Folks.
“Atticus, he was real nice.”
“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from,
that white man is trash”
Don’t let em get your goat
Try fightin’ with your head for a change.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time
It’s because he wants to stay inside.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives
But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em,
but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white
But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men
Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o’clock naps.
And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum.
“I shall never marry, Atticus.”
“I might have children.”
I try to give’em a reason, you see.
It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason
Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.
She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years
I wanted you to see what real courage is
instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand
People generally see what they look for
and hear what they listen for
Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit ‘em
but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird
People in their right minds
never take pride in their talents
There are some men n this world who are born to do unpleasant jobs for us
Your father’s one of them
There’s a whole lot of ugly things in this world son,
I wish I could keep em away from you. Thats never possible
Being southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family
that we had no recorded members on either side of the Battle of Hastings
He aint company, Cal,
he’s just a cunningham
Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey
that’s why he won’t change his ways
Before I can worry about living with other people
I have to live with myself first
Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch
, that’s why his hands were bloodstained – if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off.
