PORCH in Classic Quotes

1  Atticus stood up and walked to the end of the porch.

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

2  I ran home, and on our front porch I examined my loot.

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

3  Safely on our porch, panting and out of breath, we looked back.

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

4  Walking south, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot.

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

5  Calpurnia set a pitcher and three glasses on the porch, then went about her business.

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

6  Looks like if Mr. Arthur was hankerin after heaven he'd come out on the porch at least.

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

7  Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and all I had to do was come out and sweep the porch.

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

8  We ran home, and on the front porch we looked at a small box patchworked with bits of tinfoil collected from chewing-gum wrappers.

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

9  Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o'clock and sneezed.

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

10  My memory came alive to see Mrs. Radley occasionally open the front door, walk to the edge of the porch, and pour water on her cannas.

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

11  At last the sawhorses were taken away, and we stood watching from the front porch when Mr. Radley made his final journey past our house.

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

12  The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it.

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

13  But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.

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

14  As the year passed, released from school thirty minutes before Jem, who had to stay until three o'clock, I ran by the Radley Place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch.

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

15  She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.

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

16  Often as not, Miss Maudie and I would sit silently on her porch, watching the sky go from yellow to pink as the sun went down, watching flights of martins sweep low over the neighborhood and disappear behind the schoolhouse rooftops.

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

17  Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

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