YEAR in Classic Quotes

1  They come first day every year and then leave.

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

2  Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.

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

3  Not in money," Atticus said, "but before the year's out I'll have been paid.

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

4  At least once a year Atticus, Jem and I called on him, and I would have to kiss him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

5  Jem said it looked like they could save the collection money for a year and get some hymn-books.

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

6  For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

7  Alabama might go to the Rose Bowl again this year, judging from its prospects, not one of whose names we could pronounce.

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

8  He was a year older than I, and I avoided him on principle: he enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

9  Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack.

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

10  The only thing good about the second grade was that this year I had to stay as late as Jem, and we usually walked home together at three o'clock.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

11  What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school-wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it with other teaching techniques.

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

12  He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.

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

13  I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

14  With these attributes, however, he would not remain as inconspicuous as we wished him to: that year, the school buzzed with talk about him defending Tom Robinson, none of which was complimentary.

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

15  For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship: Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.

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

16  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

17  If the remainder of the school year were as fraught with drama as the first day, perhaps it would be mildly entertaining, but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away.

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