Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

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

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

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

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.