MAYCOMB in Classic Quotes

1  Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.

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

2  Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

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

3  His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail.

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

4  When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice.

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

5  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

6  The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.

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

7  But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

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

8  Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on.

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

9  There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

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

10  The shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays, another thing alien to Maycomb's ways: closed doors meant illness and cold weather only.

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

11  During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education.

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

12  His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars.

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

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  Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.

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

15  The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you.

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

16  They did not go to church, Maycomb's principal recreation, but worshiped at home; Mrs. Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a mid-morning coffee break with her neighbors, and certainly never joined a missionary circle.

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

17  The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody.

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