READ in Classic Quotes

1  He sat in the livingroom and read.

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

2  Atticus took it and tried to read it.

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

3  I just thought you'd like to know I can read.

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

4  I tried to keep up with him, but he read too fast.

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

5  Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

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

6  He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch.

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

7  He said he often woke up during the night, checked on us, and read himself back to sleep.

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

8  From her desk she produced a thick volume, leafed through its pages and read for a moment.

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

9  I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

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

10  She wants me to come every afternoon after school and Saturdays and read to her out loud for two hours.

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

11  Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.

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

12  It would flutter to the ground and Jem would jab it up, until I thought if Boo Radley ever received it he wouldn't be able to read it.

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

13  As he read along, I noticed that Mrs. Dubose's corrections grew fewer and farther between, that Jem had even left one sentence dangling in mid-air.

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

14  Jem read for perhaps twenty minutes, during which time I looked at the soot-stained mantelpiece, out the window, anywhere to keep from looking at her.

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

15  For the life of me, I did not understand how he could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

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

16  I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

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

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