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Tkam Quotes - Page 2

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Winning, Years, Tkam

Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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

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.

Tkam, People, Jem And Scout

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

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.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

Tkam, Desire, Bunch

Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.31, Infobase Publishing

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