FIRST in Classic Quotes

1  We don't write in the first grade, we print.

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

2  Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.

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

3  I was to stick with the first grade and he would stick with the fifth.

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

4  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

5  Walter Cunningham's face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms.

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

6  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

7  I'm just trying to tell you the new way they're teachin the first grade, stubborn.

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

8  She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.

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

9  He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

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

10  I suppose he loved honor more than his head, for Dill wore him down easily: "You're scared," Dill said, the first day.

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

11  If Walter had owned any shoes he would have worn them the first day of school and then discarded them until mid-winter.

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

12  Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack.

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

13  Our first raid came to pass only because Dill bet Jem The Gray Ghost against two Tom Swifts that Jem wouldn't get any farther than the Radley gate.

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

14  Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.

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

15  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

16  Before the first morning was over, Miss Caroline Fisher, our teacher, hauled me up to the front of the room and patted the palm of my hand with a ruler, then made me stand in the corner until noon.

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

17  Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

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