A in Classic Quotes

1  Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

3  She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  He returned to Saint Stephens only once, to find a wife, and with her established a line that ran high to daughters.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

10  Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

13  Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

16  In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

17  The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1