MY in Classic Quotes

1  I never looked forward more to anything in my life.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

2  I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  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

4  Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

5  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

6  Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

7  I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that.

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

8  "Everybody who goes home to lunch hold up your hands," said Miss Caroline, breaking into my new grudge against Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

9  He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.

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

10  Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

11  Before the first morning was over, Miss Caroline Fisher, our teacher, hauled me up to the front of the room and patted the palm of my hand with a ruler, then made me stand in the corner until noon.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

12  Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

13  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

14  If I could have explained these things to Miss Caroline, I would have saved myself some inconvenience and Miss Caroline subsequent mortification, but it was beyond my ability to explain things as well as Atticus, so I said, "You're shamin him, Miss Caroline."

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.

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

16  I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

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