NOTHING in Classic Quotes

1  We could do nothing to please her.

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

2  Uncle Jack raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

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

3  Jem said nothing more about it until late afternoon.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

4  According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody.

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

5  Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

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

6  She said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody.

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

7  Atticus had said we need not go to school that day, we'd learn nothing after no sleep.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  He simply murmured, "Her use of bathroom invective leaves nothing to the imagination."

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

9  But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

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

10  He began pouring out our secrets right and left in total disregard for my safety if not for his own, omitting nothing, knot-hole, pants and all.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

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

12  I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants.

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

13  At first we saw nothing but a kudzu-covered front porch, but a closer inspection revealed an arc of water descending from the leaves and splashing in the yellow circle of the street light, some ten feet from source to earth, it seemed to us.

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

14  I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety despite Jem's assurances that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night.

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

15  If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.

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

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  As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.

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