ATTENTIVE in Classic Quotes

1  Their attention amounted to fascination.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

2  Atticus said, "Don't pay any attention to her, Jack."

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

3  Something about one of the trees attracted my attention.

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

4  Miss Scout, if you give me your attention I'll tell you what entailment is.

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

5  Mr. Gilmer called attention to the hot day by wiping his head with his hand.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

6  She stopped shyly at the railing and waited to get Judge Taylor's attention.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21

7  Subdued, I fixed my attention upon Reverend Sykes, who seemed to be waiting for me to settle down.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

8  The jury, thinking themselves under close scrutiny, paid attention; so did the witnesses, thinking likewise.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

9  Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

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

10  Had I been attentive, I would have had another scrap to add to Jem's definition of background, but I found myself shaking and couldn't stop.

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

11  One Sunday night, lost in fruity metaphors and florid diction, Judge Taylor's attention was wrenched from the page by an irritating scratching noise.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27

12  When they saw Jem and me with Calpurnia, the men stepped back and took off their hats; the women crossed their arms at their waists, weekday gestures of respectful attention.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

13  He walked slowly up and down in front of the jury, and the jury seemed to be attentive: their heads were up, and they followed Atticus's route with what seemed to be appreciation.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

14  Reverend Sykes then called on the Lord to bless the sick and the suffering, a procedure no different from our church practice, except Reverend Sykes directed the Deity's attention to several specific cases.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

15  Atticus said he didn't see how anything else could happen, that things had a way of settling down, and after enough time passed people would forget that Tom Robinson's existence was ever brought to their attention.

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

16  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

17  I had spent most of the day climbing up and down, running errands for him, providing him with literature, nourishment and water, and was carrying him blankets for the night when Atticus said if I paid no attention to him, Jem would come down.

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