Important Quotes from To kill a Mocking Bird

Important Quotes

 Chapter 1

• “Maycomb was an old town but it was a tired old town when I first knew it”

 Chapter 3

• “He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham’s”
  
• “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”
• “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”

 Chapter 5

• “There are just some kind of men who ……. Who’re so busy”

 Chapter 9

• “if you shouldn’t be defending him, then why are you doing it?
• “Atticus are we going to win it?”
• “Simply because we were licked a hundred years……. For us not try to win.” Atticus said.

Chapter 10

• “After my bout with Cecil Jacobs……………. daddy wouldn’t let her”
• “Your father’s right, “She said.
• “Mocking birds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…... it’s sin to kill a mocking bird.” 

Chaptre 11

• “It was times like these when I thought my father…………...  Who ever lived.”
• “Atticus you must be wrong”
• “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong.” 

Chapter 12

• “Lula stopped but she said, “you ain’t got no business bringing white chillum here—miss Cal?”
• “When I looked down the pathway again ………… colored people.”
• “One of them stepped from the crowd………………………… have you all.” 

Chapter 13

• “Somewhere, I had received the impression…………. squatting on one patch of land the finer it was” 

Chapter 14

• “Dill’s eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor……. you come here a minute sir?”
• “Jem was standing in a corner of the room, ……………...without your mother knowin.”

 Chapter 16

• “Well how do you know we ain’t Negroes?”
• “Well if we came out during the old Testament………...it’s too long ago to matter.”
• “That’s what I thought, “Said Jem” but around here once you have drop…………you all black”

 Chapter 19

• “If you had a clear conscience why were you scared?”
• “no suh, I’s scared I’d be in court, just like I am now”
• “Scared of arrest, scared of you’d have to face up to what you did.”

 Chapter 22

• “They’ve done it before and they did it tonight………...children weep.”

 Chapter 24

• “Oh, child those poor Mrunas,” she said …………………... would be necessary”

 Chapter 25

• “Jem was certainly never cruel to animals,………….. the insect world”
  
• “why couldn’t I mash him?” I asked
• “Atticus has used every tool………her mouth and screamed”

 Chapter 31

• “A boy trudge down the side walk………… on his ships.”
• “Atticus was right one time he said your……………. Porch was enough.”
• “When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done……..he was real nice.”

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