MY FATHER in Classic Quotes

1  The conversation was about my father.

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

2  I wished my father was a devil from hell.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

3  Dill stared at my father's retreating figure.

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

4  Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me.

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

5  When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice.

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

6  "No," my father mused, "you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons."

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

7  Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

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

8  I was beginning to notice a subtle change in my father these days, that came out when he talked with Aunt Alexandra.

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

9  It was a sad thing that my father had neglected to tell me about the Finch Family, or to install any pride into his children.

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

10  It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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

11  In obedience to my father, there followed what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation: the men talked in near-whispers.

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

12  It's against the law, all right," said my father, "and it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

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

13  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

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

14  Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life.

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

15  Furthermore, I couldn't help noticing that my father had served for years in the state legislature, elected each time without opposition, innocent of the adjustments my teachers thought essential to the development of Good Citizenship.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

16  They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.

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

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

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