MOTHER in Classic Quotes

1  In it was my mother's silver dinner-bell.

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

2  "You're more like Atticus than your mother," he said.

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

3  Sam was trotting behind his mother when they came up.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 25

4  "You oughta let your mother know where you are," said Jem.

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

5  Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence.

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

6  But Cecil said his mother said it was unsanitary to eat after folks.

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

7  Calpurnia returned and put my mother's heavy silver pitcher on a tray.

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

8  His mother said he might catch something from everybody's heads having been in the same tub.

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

9  He had taken thirteen dollars from his mother's purse, caught the nine o'clock from Meridian and got off at Maycomb Junction.

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

10  A lovelier lady than our mother never lived, she said, and it was heartbreaking the way Atticus Finch let her children run wild.

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

11  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

12  After many telephone calls, much pleading on behalf of the defendant, and a long forgiving letter from his mother, it was decided that Dill could stay.

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

13  Besides being the sassiest, most disrespectful mutts who ever passed her way, we were told that it was quite a pity our father had not remarried after our mother's death.

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

14  His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars.

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

15  I pulled at his sleeve, and we were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family's moral degeneration, the major premise of which was that half the Finches were in the asylum anyway, but if our mother were living we would not have come to such a state.

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

16  During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the evening.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

17  As Atticus's fists went to his hips, so did Jem's, and as they faced each other I could see little resemblance between them: Jem's soft brown hair and eyes, his oval face and snug-fitting ears were our mother's, contrasting oddly with Atticus's graying black hair and square-cut features, but they were somehow alike.

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