Quote

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

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
Mockingbird
Choose
Friends
Family

More quotes by Harper Lee

Image
In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
Harper Lee
Image
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
Harper Lee
Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
Harper Lee
Image
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... 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.
Harper Lee
Image
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
Harper Lee
Image
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
Harper Lee
Image
There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
Harper Lee
Image
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
Harper Lee
Image
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
Harper Lee
Image
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
Harper Lee
Image
There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Harper Lee
Image
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
Harper Lee
Image
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
Harper Lee
Image
Let the dead bury the dead.
Harper Lee
Image
Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
Harper Lee
Image
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
Image
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
Harper Lee
Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
Harper Lee
Image
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
Harper Lee
Image
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
Harper Lee