CONTENTMENT in Classic Quotes

1  Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment.

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

2  I contented myself with asking Jem if he'd lost his mind.

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

3  "Okay," I said, quite content with thirty cents and Cecil.

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

4  I was content to learn that Aunt Alexandra could be pierced sufficiently to feel gratitude for help given.

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

5  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

6  Miss Caroline walked up and down the rows peering and poking into lunch containers, nodding if the contents pleased her, frowning a little at others.

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

7  I had lost the thread of conversation long ago, when they quit talking about Tom Robinson's wife, and had contented myself with thinking of Finch's Landing and the river.

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

8  There was one odd thing, though, that I never understood: in spite of Atticus's shortcomings as a parent, people were content to re-elect him to the state legislature that year, as usual, without opposition.

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

9  Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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