To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-8 Quotes

#1. I want a formal apology from the mayor.

Antonio Gonzalez

#2. What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis Mann

#3. The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

David Finckel

#4. Through the light splaying off the roof, Angela's falling blonde hair looked cream-colored, intricately stitched together like a veil.

Greg Metcalf

#5. But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. They may have convinced you all these years that you are nothing, unworthy of love, but I am telling you you are, and I love you." His eyes flared a deep green color and he leaned in closer to her. "You are starved for it, Lady Graven, starved, just as much as I am.

Cat Porter

#7. So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus

Harper Lee

#8. [The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known.

William Muir

#9. A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

Marguerite Young

#10. For some reason it always irked me when people felt it necessary to draw attention to my height as though I wasn't aware of my larger than average stature. I once responded: "Yes, and you're very small." but that didn't go over very well, even though in that situation it was true.

Penny Reid

#11. As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Virat Kohli

#12. It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

Bethany Hamilton

#13. I wrote about the Thai sex industry and people ask me how many bar-girls I slept with. I've just completed a short story about a High School shooting but nobody thinks I shot anyone.

Matt Carrell

#14. I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

Kohta Hirano

#15. We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

Norm Coleman

#16. In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

Matt Taibbi