Quotes About Tom Robinson

#1. In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Harper Lee

#2. 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

#3. A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

Tom Robinson

#4. But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness ...

Potter Stewart

#6. There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

Tom Robinson

#7. Oops! This young scientist tried to clean his friends' copper ID bracelets. But the acid was too strong and it removed part of each letter! Question: Can you add the missing lines to complete the letters and see to whom each bracelet belongs?

Tom Robinson

#8. I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

Tom Robinson

#9. You named the chicken, Chicken?"
She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#10. If you look at pictures of the bodies of Muhammad Ali, Ray Robinson, or, for that matter, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, you'll see physique in perfect proportion and built for function.

Tom Schreck

#11. I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Anne Rice

#12. Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.

George Eliot

#13. While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

John Nunn

#14. Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary.

Tom Robinson

#15. I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

Tom Robinson

#16. The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

Hun Sen

#17. I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks.

Brendan Robinson

#18. I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

Gene Roddenberry

#19. My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

Tom Robinson

#20. Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Tom Waits

#21. Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

Ray Davies