Harper Lee Father Quotations

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.