Quotes About Mr Radley

#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. Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

Harper Lee

#3. leave the place. From the day Mr Radley took Arthur home, people said the house died. But

Harper Lee

#4. The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.

Elaine Radley

#5. The emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

Al Gore

#6. White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

Siegbert Tarrasch

#7. But not every dog was Boo Radley. Sometimes a dog was just a dog. Sometimes a cat was just a cat. Still, I opened the screen door and stuck a red sticker on Lucille's head.

Kami Garcia

#8. Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.

Radley Balko

#9. I have dirty things on my mind and they all involve Rebecca Radley.

Holly Stone

#10. For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.

James Lovegrove

#11. Please do not devour me, I wish to remain Boo Radley.

Angela Marie Suor

#12. I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

Kathryn Stockett

#13. We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities.

James O'Shaughnessy

#14. Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.

Harper Lee

#15. It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Baltasar Gracian

#16. Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Harper Lee

#17. Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix.

Radley Balko

#18. I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.

Harper Lee

#19. There was a shared sigh as the boys ran off behind Radley, thanking God for not killing them, and telling him how they'd be better people and do their homework from now on.

Joseph Eastwood

#20. 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

#21. On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Bob Barr

#22. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Balko, Radley)

Anonymous

#23. The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.

Michael P. Naughton

#24. The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

Bob Goff

#25. Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.

Radley Balko

#26. 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

#27. But you can't go back now? To that orderly, harmonious, intimate place?'
He thought about this, though there was no need to. 'That place doesn't exist anymore,' he said quietly.

Haruki Murakami