Quotes About Aunt Alexandra

#1. Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

Harper Lee

#2. What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" "Something furtive," Aunt Alexandra said. "You may count on that." "Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb," Atticus answered.

Harper Lee

#3. We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

Alexandra Adornetto

#4. Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.

Jonathan Grimwood

#5. It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.

Bertrand Russell

#6. For me to play gay, it has to be something special because it might actually be more of a risk. So I'm waiting for that role - I want it to be something that moves things forward.

Russell Tovey

#7. The guitar chose me.

Charlie Byrd

#8. I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

Gelett Burgess

#9. If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding for him.

Anuj