GENERATIONS in Classic Quotes

1  He described them to Atticus, but Atticus said, "You're a generation off."

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

2  Atticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations.

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

3  The tribe of which Burris Ewell and his brethren consisted had lived on the same plot of earth behind the Maycomb dump, and had thrived on county welfare money for three generations.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

4  Their ways were strange to us, and why they wanted a cellar nobody knew, but they wanted one and they dug one, and they spent the rest of their lives chasing generations of children out of it.

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

5  The Levy family met all criteria for being Fine Folks: they did the best they could with the sense they had, and they had been living on the same plot of ground in Maycomb for five generations.

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

6  Once, when Aunty assured us that Miss Stephanie Crawford's tendency to mind other people's business was hereditary, Atticus said, "Sister, when you stop to think about it, our generation's practically the first in the Finch family not to marry its cousins."

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

7  There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13