ALABAMA in Classic Quotes

1  "You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

2  Alabama might go to the Rose Bowl again this year, judging from its prospects, not one of whose names we could pronounce.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

3  North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  Because its primary reason for existence was government, Maycomb was spared the grubbiness that distinguished most Alabama towns its size.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

6  He traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

7  There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

8  Well, neither of us was the Mayor of Birmingham, but I wished I was the Governor of Alabama for one day: I'd let Tom Robinson go so quick the Missionary Society wouldn't have time to catch its breath.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

9  Sinkfield, no patriot, served and supplied ammunition to Indians and settlers alike, neither knowing or caring whether he was a part of the Alabama Territory or the Creek Nation so long as business was good.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

10  So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

12  She chanted mournfully about Maycomb County being older than the state, that it was a part of the Mississippi and Alabama Territories, that the first white man to set foot in the virgin forests was the Probate Judge's great-grandfather five times removed, who was never heard of again.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28