BORN in Classic Quotes

1  Know everything that's happened here since before I was born.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30

2  The misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were born.

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

3  "Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born hypocrites," Mrs. Merriweather was saying.

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

4  I once asked Atticus if it ever had any; Atticus said yes, but before I was born.

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

5  Scout yonder's been readin ever since she was born, and she ain't even started to school yet.

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

6  I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 22

7  She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.

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

8  Little Chuck Little was another member of the population who didn't know where his next meal was coming from, but he was a born gentleman.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

9  Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack.

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

10  Jem showed it to Atticus, who said it was a spelling medal, that before we were born the Maycomb County schools had spelling contests and awarded medals to the winners.

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

11  They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, "Po-ork," with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue.

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

12  I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

13  He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

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

14  In the first place, few rural children had access to newspapers, so the burden of Current Events was borne by the town children, convincing the bus children more deeply that the town children got all the attention anyway.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26

15  Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

16  To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip.

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