GROWN in Classic Quotes

1  "I hate grown folks lookin at you," said Dill.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 22

2  "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 22

3  Nearly the same age, they had grown up together at Finch's Landing.

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

4  Her hands were knobby, and the cuticles were grown up over her fingernails.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

5  She says she never kissed a grown man before an she might as well kiss a nigger.

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

6  In Maycomb, grown men stood outside in the front yard for only two reasons: death and politics.

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

7  We went by Mrs. Dubose's house, standing empty and shuttered, her camellias grown up in weeds and johnson grass.

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

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  As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 31

10  We strolled silently down the sidewalk, listening to porch swings creaking with the weight of the neighborhood, listening to the soft night-murmurs of the grown people on our street.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

11  Mr. Tate added that Atticus wasn't going to stand there and maintain that any boy Jem's size with a busted arm had fight enough left in him to tackle and kill a grown man in the pitch dark.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30

12  I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

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

13  He thought Jem and I would never go to bed; he had considered emerging and helping me beat Jem, as Jem had grown far taller, but he knew Mr. Finch would break it up soon, so he thought it best to stay where he was.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14