I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

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

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.