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Harper Lee Quotes about Children

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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.

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.

Children, Tkam, Adults

"To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine sense of perception. As we grow older, the world closes in on us, and we gradually lose the freshness of viewpoint that we had as children. That is why I think children should get to know this country while they are young.

Country, Children, Thinking

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

Children, Pain, Men

Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.21, Harper Collins

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.

Summer, Children, Heart

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 quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Children, Tkam, Sake

"To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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

Children, Tkam, Attention

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.

Children, War, Parent

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

Children, Tkam, Sake

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

Children, Might

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.

Children, Aunt, Cynical

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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.

Children, Character, Animal

"To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Good Night, Children, Tkam

Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.173, Random House

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