Quotes About Atticus

#1. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

Harper Lee

#2. People who live in my stone house shouldn't throw glass.

Atticus

#3. Their numbers swell like viruses until they madden someone with a large army.

Kevin Hearne

#4. Words
will
scratch
more
hearts
than
swords.

Atticus Poetry

#5. You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won't find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.

Harper Lee

#6. We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

Atticus Shaffer

#7. I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'.

Kevin Hearne

#8. Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

Atticus Shaffer

#9. Oh, Atticus," it says soft, and the softness is scarier than the rest in its sorrow. "I'd have done anything you asked. I'd have been your sea and sky.

Leah Bobet

#10. My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

Liberty Ross

#11. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Harper Lee

#12. A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

- ATTICUS

Atticus Poetry

#13. I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

Kevin Hearne

#14. But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

Atticus Shaffer

#15. But in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

Harper Lee

#16. She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.

Atticus Poetry

#17. Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

Harper Lee

#18. Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Harper Lee

#19. Theatrically, you are aware of every part of you in acting; every component of your surroundings, including the clothes you wear. Eh ... in voiceover, shorts and a t-shirt and badaboom ... done.

Atticus Shaffer

#20. Shoulder up, I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs; instead, I saw Dill ringing the bell with all his might in Atticus's face.

Harper Lee

#21. Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?"
Oberon "Poochism"
A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?"
O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.

Kevin Hearne

#22. She wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword.

Atticus Poetry

#23. wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - ATTICUS FINCH, FROM HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Kristin Hannah

#24. She was too busy wishing
on shooting stars
to see the dreams
come true around her.

Atticus Poetry

#25. We don't need to play her witch's games. They always want to get you and your little dog, too." "I knew I never should have let you watch The Wizard of Oz." "Toto didn't deserve that kind of trauma. He was so tiny.

Kevin Hearne

#26. Wow you need to get some sun."
"Shut up. I'm Irish.

Kevin Hearne

#27. True art
comes
from flying
with the madness
so close
you burn
your eyelashes.

Atticus Poetry

#28. Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.

Atticus

#29. But Cal," Jem protested, "you don't look even near as old as Atticus."
"Colored folks don't show their ages so fast," she said.

Harper Lee

#30. Seven o'clock and all's well," said Atticus. "You've been swearing at your aunt." "I have not." "She told me you had." "I was crude, but I didn't cuss her.

Harper Lee

#31. Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got tapeworm" Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.

Harper Lee

#32. A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.

Atticus Ross

#33. Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon."
Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels.

Kevin Hearne

#34. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

Harper Lee

#35. I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.

Atticus

#36. A few drinks and the world was hers -
she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.

Atticus Poetry

#37. My mouth gaped and I think I might have whimpered. The Norns had obliterated him completely - a creature they'd known for centuries - because of me. It was like watching Rudolph get shot by Santa Claus.

Kevin Hearne

#38. Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.

Atticus

#39. The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

Kevin Hearne

#40. All art is in revolution of tyranny.

Atticus

#41. She wondered how she would behave when her time came to hurt day in and day out. Hardly like Atticus: if you asked him how he was feeling he would tell you, but he never complained; his disposition remained the same, so in order to find out how he was feeling, you had to ask him.

Harper Lee

#42. Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#43. I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.

Atticus

#44. For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Atticus Ross

#45. I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.

Atticus Poetry

#46. What good are wings without the courage to fly?

Atticus Poetry

#47. When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it.

Kevin Hearne

#48. With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

Jude Watson

#49. Door. She knocked and went in. Atticus was in bed reading. "Have a good time?" "I had a won-derful time," she said. "Atticus?" "Hm?

Harper Lee

#50. Careful with that ego, you could knock somebody over. Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#51. All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

Atticus Shaffer

#52. Atticus
" ... said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it
seems that only children weep.

Harper Lee

#53. I worry there is something broken in our generation; there are so many sad eyes on happy faces.

Atticus

#54. I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Atticus Shaffer

#55. It was about such people that he complained to Atticus: I will only say this, and I believe you know I am right: it was not enemies but jealous friends who ruined me.

Anthony Everitt

#56. We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths.

Atticus Poetry

#57. She had been half willing to sponge out what she had seen and heard, creep back to New York, and make him a memory. A memory of the three of them, Atticus, Jem, and her, when things were uncomplicated and people did not lie.

Harper Lee

#58. When you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology. Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#59. I think he got your goat, Atticus! And I've been meaning to ask you about the expression. When people get your goat, what do they do with it? Do they eat it or hold it for ransom or what?

Kevin Hearne

#60. It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thing is, I'm happy that I'm able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

Atticus Shaffer

#61. Sometimes you have to slay a few dragons before you free the princess.

Atticus

#62. I've always resented mirrors for their honesty.

Atticus

#63. Brushing a girl's hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
than all those
therapists
and drugs.

Atticus Poetry

#64. I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.

Atticus Shaffer

#65. Atticus's wisdom; he was growing old and he wanted to die safe in the knowledge that his daughter could fend for herself.

Harper Lee

#66. He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch - wasn't crazy - mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.

Harper Lee

#67. I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

Atticus Shaffer

#68. I have seen your
darkest nights
and brightest days
and I want you to know
that I will be here
forever
loving you
in dusk.

Atticus Poetry

#69. For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

Harper Lee

#70. Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with

Harper Lee

#71. Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.

Atticus Poetry

#72. Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Harper Lee

#73. Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon."
"They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian."
"No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process."
"Well that ... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!

Kevin Hearne

#74. I'm a man full of doubts and I doubt that will change.

Atticus

#75. Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

#76. My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

Atticus Shaffer

#77. When it comes to love
we are primates breaking sticks
while pointing to our hearts.

Atticus Poetry

#78. Dude. If that was a Shakespearean quote duel, he just kicked your ass.

Kevin Hearne

#79. When we reached the auditorium, the whole town was there except Atticus and the ladies worn out from decorating, and the usual outcasts and shut-ins.

Harper Lee

#80. I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

Atticus Shaffer

#81. Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.

Atticus Poetry

#82. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Harper Lee

#83. Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Harper Lee

#84. She did come from a family of bards, Jake," Atticus said. "Beards?" Dan asked. "Bards," Atticus said with a snort of laughter. "Poets. The learned scholars of Ireland." "I bet they had beards, though," Dan said, and Atticus laughed and threw an eraser at him. "The

Jude Watson

#85. There's too much risk in loving,'
the young boy said,
'no,'
said the old man,
'there's too much risk in not.

Atticus Poetry

#86. Atticus, I think we're being stalked by the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. First it was a Vulture adn now two giant ravens are coming our way. Oberon

Kevin Hearne

#87. Songs live longer than kingdoms.

Atticus Poetry

#88. But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad.

Matt Ruff

#89. I don't drink and drive. I could live with killing myself but I couldn't live with killing someone else.

Atticus

#90. You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors.

Harper Lee

#91. Being immortal did not make me invincible. Look at what the Bacchants did to that poor Orpheus fella.

Kevin Hearne

#92. That was her magic -
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.

Atticus Poetry

#93. There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes.

Atticus Poetry

#94. Her smile was like laughter to me - it bubbled in like champagne.

Atticus

#95. It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"

Atticus Shaffer

#96. Bullshit, as you Americans say.
He's Irish.
The Irish say bullshit too.

Kevin Hearne

#97. Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

Harper Lee

#98. (Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

Lisa Henry

#99. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

Harper Lee

#100. Gaia has left us wonder wherever we go, if we only open our eyes to it." ~ Atticus

Kevin Hearne