To Kill A Mockingbird Thematic Quotes

#1. Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.

Richard Roundtree

#2. The gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.

David Hewson

#4. If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Jeff Bezos

#5. As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. People want me to do things, be a certain way and that's not going to happen. I'm going to be Albert Belle.

Albert Belle

#7. Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Denis Waitley

#8. Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.

Frank Smith

#9. For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

Daniel H. Wilson

#10. Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

Shaan

#11. Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Anonymous

#12. If indeed there was an intruder in the McIntosh house, it would be deeply satisfying to apprehend him. Barb McIntosh suspected a sex offender, and, if she was right, Em knew exactly where she'd target the electrodes.

Kristan Higgins

#13. The Kingdom of God is the already but not yet".

~R. Alan Woods [1998]

R. Alan Woods

#14. For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

Jonathan Darman