To_Kill_A_Mockingbird_Quotes

Quotes We Have To Know

" Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hitt'em, but remeber it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." - ATTICUS

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird." - MISS MAUDIE

"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." - ATTICUS

"'Let this cup pass from you, eh?'" - JACK FINCH

"'Marksmanship's a gift of God, a talent....I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.'" - MISS MAUDIE "'Let the dead bury the dead.'" - HECK TATE "I think ill be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There aint one thing in this wolrd i can do about folks except laugh, so im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off." "You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, itsfolks that laugh at them." "Well, im gonna be a new kind of clown. Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks." - DILL (FOOLISH LINE)
 * What does Miss Maudie mean by this line?**
 * Who is Heck talking about?**

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. he gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. but neighbors give in return. We never put bacl into the tree what we took out of it; we had given him nothing, and it made me sad." - SCOUT!!