Mockingbird Quotes
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
Tags: Friend, Understand, Why ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMy favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
Tags: Face, Him, Movies ✍ Author: Mary-Louise ParkerNo; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Tags: Beautiful, Real, Why ✍ Author: Bertrand RussellBloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Tags: Bloom, Rural, Tidy ✍ Author: Berkeley BreathedI don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.
Tags: Feeling, Real, Small ✍ Author: Chris Crutcher