Harper Lee Tkam Quotations

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.