Quote

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

Harper Lee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
Atticus
Rarely
Christians
Called
Christian
Men
Like

More quotes by Harper Lee

Image
Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?
Harper Lee
Image
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
Harper Lee
Image
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
Harper Lee
Image
I do my best to love everybody
Harper Lee
Image
Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
Harper Lee
Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Harper Lee
Image
But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
Harper Lee
Image
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
Harper Lee
Image
Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
Harper Lee
Image
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
Harper Lee
Image
When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice... His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Harper Lee
Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
Harper Lee
Image
Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
Harper Lee
Image
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
Harper Lee
Image
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
Harper Lee
Image
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
Harper Lee
Image
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
Harper Lee
Image
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Harper Lee
Image
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
Harper Lee
Image
Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee