Maudie's Quotes

#1. Miss Maudie's hand closed tightly on mine, and I said nothing. Its warmth was enough.

Harper Lee

#2. -That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know.-
Miss Maudie grinned. thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the bible literally, you know.

Harper Lee

#3. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

King David

#4. Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while.

Harper Lee

#5. Don't let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to manage them because they don't have the dreams to fulfill; you have the dreams.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

Kenneth Logan

#7. How impossible it
is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you
couldn't even imagine.

Laurie J. Marks

#8. As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don't want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they're going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.

Steve Carell

#9. Where there is unity, there is the victory.

Publilius Syrus

#10. Girls like me don't get the fairytales.
Because the white knights never want the dirty, damaged girls.
They know there's nothing left of us that's salvageable...nothing left of us that hasn't already been taken and destroyed.
And saving us? Will only ruin them.

Ashley Jade

#11. Our kids aren't an annuity for our retirement, social system, or medical frailty.

Henry Cloud

#12. He was fleeced, robbed; and yet he was the exploiter. The government, unhesitatingly obliging to the majority, pocketed his taxes, and allowed him to be bled.

Ernst Junger

#13. Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist - " "That's what you are, ain't it?" "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist." "Don't you all believe in foot-washing?" "We do. At home in the bathtub." "But we can't have communion with you all -

Harper Lee

#14. Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

Harper Lee

#15. Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Dalai Lama

#16. A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

Betty Ford

#17. Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.

Hans Koning

#18. The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.

Joseph Campbell

#19. Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing ... social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

Thomas Sowell