FINCH in Classic Quotes

1  I cannot answer that question, Jem Finch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

2  Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

3  You, Miss Scout Finch, are of the common folk.

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

4  This yard's as much mine as it is yours, Jem Finch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

5  He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch.

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

6  Nearly the same age, they had grown up together at Finch's Landing.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

7  Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus's brother, since they were children.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

8  Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County.

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

9  Uncle Jack Finch confined his passion for digging to his window boxes in Nashville and stayed rich.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

11  All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.

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

12  It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing, and make their living from cotton.

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

13  Gracious child, I was raveling a thread, wasn't even thinking about your father, but now that I am I'll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

14  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

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

15  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

16  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

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

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

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