HE in Classic Quotes

1  "I'm Charles Baker Harris," he said.

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

2  Sitting down, he wasn't much higher than the collards.

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

3  When he was like that, I knew better than to bother him.

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

4  He couldn't have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt.

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

5  When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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

6  When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice.

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

7  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

8  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

9  Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.

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

10  When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

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

11  He remembered her clearly, and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length, then go off and play by himself behind the car-house.

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

12  His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh.

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

13  During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education.

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

14  She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come.

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

15  He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

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

16  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

17  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