YEARS in Classic Quotes

1  He was thirty-three years old then.

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

2  She took it as a pain-killer for years.

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

3  He was middle-aged then, she was fifteen years his junior.

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

4  The misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were born.

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

5  "For a while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

6  I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that.

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

7  "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.

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

8  When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.

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

9  The doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr. Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years.

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

10  Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

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

11  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

12  But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

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

13  During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education.

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

14  In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.

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

15  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

16  Furthermore, I couldn't help noticing that my father had served for years in the state legislature, elected each time without opposition, innocent of the adjustments my teachers thought essential to the development of Good Citizenship.

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

17  He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.

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