TIME in Classic Quotes

1  He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life.

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

2  By the time we reached our front steps Walter had forgotten he was a Cunningham.

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

3  Dr. Reynolds parked his car in front of our house and walked to the Radley's every time he called.

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

4  Atticus ain't got time to teach me anything, I added, when Miss Caroline smiled and shook her head.

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

5  They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything.

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

6  "Well," she said, getting up from the kitchen chair, "it's enough time to make a pan of cracklin bread, I reckon."

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

7  "Anybody who went up to the house once oughta not to still run every time he passes it," I said to the clouds above.

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

8  "She likes Jem better'n she likes me, anyway," I concluded, and suggested that Atticus lose no time in packing her off.

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

9  "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

10  By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms.

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

11  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

12  It was not often that she made crackling bread, she said she never had time, but with both of us at school today had been an easy one for her.

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

13  There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

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

14  Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time.

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

15  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

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

16  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

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

17  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