CHILD in Classic Quotes

1  My shell's not that hard, child.

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

2  He was the most boring child I ever met.

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

3  No, child," she said, "that is a sad house.

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

4  "Oh child, those poor Mrunas," she said, and was off.

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

5  "Hee hee," said Mr. Raymond, evidently taking delight in corrupting a child.

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

6  A child had as many fathers as there were men in the community, as many mothers as there were women.

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

7  Each child was supposed to clip an item from a newspaper, absorb its contents, and reveal them to the class.

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

8  Sometimes a baby would cry out fretfully, and a child would scurry out, but the grown people sat as if they were in church.

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

9  Burris seemed to be afraid of a child half his height, and Miss Caroline took advantage of his indecision: "Burris, go home."

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

10  By noontime that day, there was not a barefooted child to be seen in Maycomb and nobody took off his shoes until the hounds were returned.

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

11  Each child did what he wanted to do, with assistance from other children if there was anything to be moved, such as placing a light buggy on top of the livery stable.

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

12  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

13  She was as sad, I thought, as what Jem called a mixed child: white people wouldn't have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn't have anything to do with her because she was white.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

14  I saw something only a lawyer's child could be expected to see, could be expected to watch for, and it was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty.

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

15  Why she frowned when a child recited from The Grit Paper I never knew, but in some way it was associated with liking fiddling, eating syrupy biscuits for lunch, being a holy-roller, singing Sweetly Sings the Donkey and pronouncing it dunkey, all of which the state paid teachers to discourage.

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

16  This practice allegedly overcame a variety of evils: standing in front of his fellows encouraged good posture and gave a child poise; delivering a short talk made him word-conscious; learning his current event strengthened his memory; being singled out made him more than ever anxious to return to the Group.

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

17  She thought it would be adorable if some of the children were costumed to represent the county's agricultural products: Cecil Jacobs would be dressed up to look like a cow; Agnes Boone would make a lovely butterbean, another child would be a peanut, and on down the line until Mrs. Merriweather's imagination and the supply of children were exhausted.

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