THEY 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  They never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have.

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

3  I'm just trying to tell you the new way they're teachin the first grade, stubborn.

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

4  He was a thin leathery man with colorless eyes, so colorless they did not reflect light.

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

5  As the Cunninghams had no money to pay a lawyer, they simply paid us with what they had.

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

6  "They can go to school any time they want to, when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education," said Atticus.

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

7  He said that some Christmas, when he was getting rid of the tree, he would take me with him and show me where and how they lived.

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

8  The cats had long conversations with one another, they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove.

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

9  There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't.'

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

10  The judge asked Mr. Conner why he included the last charge; Mr. Conner said they cussed so loud he was sure every lady in Maycomb heard them.

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

11  Miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already, and they were looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiarity breeds understanding.

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

12  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

13  Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

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

14  Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.

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

15  According to neighborhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county, and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb.

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

16  They did little, but enough to be discussed by the town and publicly warned from three pulpits: they hung around the barbershop; they rode the bus to Abbottsville on Sundays and went to the picture show; they attended dances at the county's riverside gambling hell, the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp; they experimented with stumphole whiskey.

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

17  The town decided something had to be done; Mr. Conner said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn't get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female.

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