Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
- Berkeley Breathed

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
- Stephen Chbosky

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.
- Stephen Chbosky

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'
- John Krasinski

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- Harper Lee

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
- Harper Lee

Lawyers, I suppose were once children, too
-From To Kill A Mockingbird
- Harper Lee

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- Harper Lee

Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- Harper Lee

You can kill all the bluebirds you want, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- 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

Kill all the bluejays you want, but it is a sin to kill a mockingbird
- Harper Lee

To kill a mockingbird is a sin
- Harper Lee

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.....
Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, don't nest in corncribs,they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- Harper Lee

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.
- Anna Quindlen

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.
- Kathryn Stockett

In the dark, I get a glimpse of myself from way above, like in a movie. I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Kathryn Stockett