PEOPLE in Classic Quotes

1  They were people, but they lived like animals.

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

2  In her place was a solid mass of colored people.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

3  The things that happen to people we never really know.

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

4  From the day Mr. Radley took Arthur home, people said the house died.

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

5  Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor.

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

6  When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them.

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

7  We looked at her in surprise, for Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people.

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

8  I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.

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

9  Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

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

10  They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.

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

11  But there came a day, barely within Jem's memory, when Boo Radley was heard from and was seen by several people, but not by Jem.

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

12  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

13  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

14  The Governor was eager to scrape a few barnacles off the ship of state; there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham; bread lines in the cities grew longer, people in the country grew poorer.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

15  He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

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

16  I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

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

17  Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.

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