Quotes About Miss Maudie

#1. 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

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

Harper Lee

#3. -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

#4. 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

#5. Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

Miriam Toews

#6. 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

#7. It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

Viggo Mortensen

#8. Oi'm always noble, sir; it's in my blood. 'As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?

Elizabeth Haydon

#9. Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved 'through faith,' but salvation is 'by grace'.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.

Nathaniel Branden

#11. You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.

Adele Geras

#12. One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Ishmael Reed

#13. Sometimes I imagined how everything looked above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blond, and the endless atmosphere was a giant blue eye

Markus Zusak

#14. Imora thea mi savur, Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

William Cowper

#16. But there were some who went with her willingly, for there are other women who dream of lying with wolves.

John Connolly

#17. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

George Orwell

#18. I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Jake Gyllenhaal