Harper Lee quote: "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you c...
HARPER LEE

Now, 75 years [after

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)......
HARPER LEE

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions......
HARPER LEE

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."

Jen turned and punched hi...
HARPER LEE

Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
HARPER LEE

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...
HARPER LEE

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...
HARPER LEE

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...
HARPER LEE

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo...
HARPER LEE

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
HARPER LEE

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think no...
HARPER LEE

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gon...
HARPER LEE

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
HARPER LEE

It's not time to worry yet
HARPER LEE

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

Things are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEE

Pass the damn ham, please.
HARPER LEE

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no m...
HARPER LEE

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our ...
HARPER LEE

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout
HARPER LEE

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
HARPER LEE

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, w...
HARPER LEE

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

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. C...
HARPER LEE

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor t...
HARPER LEE

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't yo...
HARPER LEE

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gar...
HARPER LEE

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEE

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll...
HARPER LEE

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
HARPER LEE

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEE

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g...
HARPER LEE

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.
HARPER LEE

Atticus, you must be wrong."

"How's that?"

"Well, most folks seem to think t...
HARPER LEE

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g...
HARPER LEE

Before I can live with other folks, Ive got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnt abide...
HARPER LEE

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
HARPER LEE

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's n...
HARPER LEE

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w...
HARPER LEE

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but h...
HARPER LEE

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
HARPER LEE

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

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white...
HARPER LEE

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subj...
HARPER LEE

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned t...
HARPER LEE

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o-clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes...
HARPER LEE

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...
HARPER LEE

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Hey Boo.
HARPER LEE

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
HARPER LEE

In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's ...
HARPER LEE

I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down ...
HARPER LEE

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer...
HARPER LEE

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ...
HARPER LEE

First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with ...
HARPER LEE

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE

"“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….. Yes, sir, a clown. There ain’t one thing in th...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abid...
HARPER LEE

You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s fa...
HARPER LEE

Если ты человек вежливый, говори с другими не про то, чт...
HARPER LEE

Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter.
HARPER LEE

But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave yo...
HARPER LEE

Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets...
HARPER LEE

Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing...
HARPER LEE

If you did not want much, there was plenty.
HARPER LEE

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.
HARPER LEE

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...
HARPER LEE

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walkin...
HARPER LEE

I can't beat you, I can't join you.
HARPER LEE

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
HARPER LEE

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

No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just get...
HARPER LEE

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, ...
HARPER LEE

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.
HARPER LEE

When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from th...
HARPER LEE

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEE

Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back...
HARPER LEE

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
HARPER LEE

They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advanci...
HARPER LEE

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most import...
HARPER LEE

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HARPER LEE

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a g...
HARPER LEE

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

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s w...
HARPER LEE

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
HARPER LEE

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m...
HARPER LEE

She was the bravest person I ever knew.
HARPER LEE

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getti...
HARPER LEE

...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the...
HARPER LEE

Things are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEE

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you beg...
HARPER LEE

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

You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was bo...
HARPER LEE

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place h...
HARPER LEE

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job
not to let her make you mad.
HARPER LEE

Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my ha...
HARPER LEE

Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and ...
HARPER LEE

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
HARPER LEE

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
HARPER LEE

If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Someti...
HARPER LEE

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read
HARPER LEE

When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. "What are you s...
HARPER LEE

Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

I don't see why I have to when he doesn't.
Then listen.
HARPER LEE

(When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and e...
HARPER LEE

Kış günleri beni saatlerce ağaçevde oturmuş okul bahçesini seyrederken görebilirdiniz, Jem'i...
HARPER LEE

[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when th...
HARPER LEE

I'm painfully middle class.
VALERIE HARPER

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm ...
VALERIE HARPER

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage...
VALERIE HARPER

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you...
VALERIE HARPER

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
VALERIE HARPER

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
VALERIE HARPER

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
VALERIE HARPER

Life does not owe me a shred.
VALERIE HARPER

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER

I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'...
BRYCE HARPER

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to...
HILL HARPER

I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra...
MOLLY HARPER

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt...
ROY HARPER

I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite...
MOLLY HARPER

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER

It's a privilege to have a concealed weapons permit. Having no oversight is scary. We especially wan...
ADRIA HARPER

By the time the public gets to see the records, it's already too late.
ADRIA HARPER

I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowi...
ADRIA HARPER

This kicks it off with a bang. The public was invited and now they are being told they can't attend,...
ADRIA HARPER

It's an issue of public importance that's pretty critical at this period.
ADRIA HARPER

It's unfortunate that public officials feel that the public is a hindrance is getting their work don...
ADRIA HARPER

To simply muzzle someone because they're being critical of what their public servants are doing is r...
ADRIA HARPER

Public records are critical for the public's oversight. It's all potentially relevant and useful inf...
ADRIA HARPER

Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market fo...
MOLLY HARPER

Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, ...
RALPH HARPER

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of ou...
STEPHEN HARPER

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of In...
GREGG HARPER

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a pun...
MOLLY HARPER

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car th...
HILL HARPER

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
STEPHEN HARPER

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If...
STEPHEN HARPER

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you a...
BRYCE HARPER

My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' we...
HILL HARPER

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of mu...
BEN HARPER

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulfu...
BEN HARPER

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from...
BEN HARPER

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or...
BEN HARPER

If you don't like my fire, Then don't come around Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a...
BEN HARPER

It's so hard to so, so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away.
BEN HARPER

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now i know I've made the mistake in the past. But n...
BEN HARPER

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would comm...
HILL HARPER

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don...
STEPHEN HARPER

For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever...
BOB HARPER

Grandma Ruthie and her sister Jettie hadn't spoken a civil word in about fifteen years. Their last e...
MOLLY HARPER

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Bost...
MOLLY HARPER

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you ha...
BOB HARPER

My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
BEN HARPER

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there i...
STEPHEN HARPER

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get...
ROY HARPER

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's ...
BEN HARPER

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - '...
HILL HARPER

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati...
BEN HARPER

Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or...
BRYCE HARPER

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
BRYCE HARPER

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fix...
BRYCE HARPER

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continen...
HILL HARPER

The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ...
BEN HARPER

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me n...
HILL HARPER

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER

I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local p...
MOLLY HARPER

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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