To Kill a Mockingbird

"The search for truth is always more important than the search for comfort."

"I'm afraid our activities this summer had been cut down according to a rigid schedule."

"We're made of the same dust of the earth."

"Put your foot in somebody else's shoes and walk around in it."

"You see they could never, never go to school a day in their lives."

"You're not being very rational, Scout."

"The way I am now, Atticus says is the way I'm always going to be."

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town."

"I remember nothing of my mother, so I cannot miss her."

"Whatever I do, you can always come to me."

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"You look like a mixed up child."

"We're the same folks, Scout."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked but you fight anyway."

"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."

"You must never be frightened by what you see in newspapers."

"The pink fading light is there, so we can see a little better."

"I'm simply defending niggers."

"Nothing is more private than the human heart."

"The truth, simple or not simple, is the truth."

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

"Before Jem was born, I was an invalid for a number of years. I was selfish. I was the last person in the world I wanted to be."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, that white man is trash."

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with all right ones out of them usually by puberty."

"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."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"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."