If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.


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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
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a to...
TOMMY LEE
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...
HARPER LEE
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
BRUCE LEE
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious eve...
BRUCE LEE
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...
HARPER LEE
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
BRUCE LEE
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...
HARPER LEE
My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
t...
LEE IACOCCA
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, ev...
TANITH LEE
You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life...
BECCA 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
It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with pass...
SPIKE LEE
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
LEE IACOCCA
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It...
LEE IACOCCA
Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserati...
LEE IACOCCA
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
LEE HANEY
The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.
LEE IACOCCA
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
LEE IACOCCA
You're only has good as your last haircut.
SUSAN LEE
Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong wit...
LEE IACOCCA
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, y...
LEE IACOCCA
Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, ...
BLAINE LEE
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
BRUCE LEE
People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
LEE IACOCCA
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
LEE IACOCCA
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser...
LEE BRISTOL
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
LEE IACOCCA
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twic...
LEE TREVINO
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty...
BRUCE LEE
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo...
BRUCE LEE
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
HARPER LEE
You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
LEE TREVINO