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

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I was still in college when ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.

If that mockingbird don’t sing and that ring don’t shine, I’m a break that birdie‘s neck.

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.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

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

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

I’m a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I’m that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it’s not really going to make me a better reader. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.

Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’.

I have ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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

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

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.

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike–in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do.

I’ve been writing as long as I’ve been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on ‘[To Kill a] Mockingbird’. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was so important because it was such adult film-making – to see something that dealt with such an important issue and had such an enlightened outlook on the world.

I love ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ – it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson’s ‘Behind The Scenes At The Museum‘ – that’s the book that started me writing.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’: You see him where he’s on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don’t want to see his face.

We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.

To Kill a Mockingbird’ represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he’s on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don’t want to see his face.

My favorite novel is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.

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

Let the dead bury the dead.

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

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

I read a lot when I was young. All the obvious, all the greats, from ‘Le Grand Meaulnes,’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ ‘Fear and Loathing,’ ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ ‘The Bell Jar,’ ‘The Female Eunuch,’ ‘Valley of the Dolls,’ ‘The Feminine Mystique,’ Tom Wolfe. Then, film took over for me. Film was so exciting in the ’70s.

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven‘t read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

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

I would come, many years later, to understand why ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is considered ‘an important novel’, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

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.

When I read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment gettin’ along?

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in an old theater, and it was just a great experience.

I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change…

Summer, and he watches his children’s heart break. Autumn again and Boo’s children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

A mockingbird… was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

I’ve become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town‘s Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in “To Kill A Mockingbird,” maybe a bit – little bit less obvious and more obscure in “Go Set A Watchman.”

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

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

Try fighting with your head for a change… it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.

This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.

I have never read ‘To Kill A Mockingbird.’

A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know–doesn’t say much for them, does it?

I would have loved to play Atticus in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ There’s no music in it, but it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t want to do it!

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard

hold your head high and keep those fists down – Atticus Finch

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

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.

I interviewed – no – had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the book club. She wouldn’t do it. She said, “Honey, I said everything I wanted to say.”

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

I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

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.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Lost in Yonkers.’

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.