Mockingbird Scout Quotes

#1. The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

Jerry Uelsmann

#2. Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

Jim Trelease

#3. I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement.

Harper Lee

#4. So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. I'm a man of my word.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#6. Jefferson repeatedly said that the best government was the smallest government, that governments are not the masters of the people, but the servants of the people governed.

Ronald Reagan

#7. Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.

Harper Lee

#8. Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

Frederick Lenz

#9. My big move was to get out of my underpants without snagging my foot and falling on my face.

Janet Evanovich

#10. Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

Andy Weir

#11. Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.

Harper Lee

#12. East Africa. Had Lance been deliberately misleading when he said West instead of East? Miss

Agatha Christie

#13. I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

Harper Lee

#15. I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something.

Graeme Simsion

#16. Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#17. Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?

J.K. Rowling

#18. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Harper Lee