F. A. Harper Quotes

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the daywithout hurting other people, then you are a good person...

I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people—

I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put, sometimes- baby, its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We can't always have our druthers.

Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it.

...I supplied in a tone so saccharine that it should have tipped him off that his testicular health was in serious peril.

Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't abide by mojority rule is a person's conscience.

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.

When it comes to love, it's always worth the sacrifice. Always.

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

I think there might be a better way, change the law

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

If you want the advice of an old man, don't be afraid of making mistakes. That's life. Just be sure you're making them for the right reason.

Most of the funeral stuff is going to be done during daylight hours, ” I said. “I’m not even going to be able to attend the burial. Humans get upset when vampires burst into flames right next to them.

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

Love? Love is for children and poor people...

There's no need for chains. I can still take you until you're begging for more.

Who could be like him? Who could ever be like you? Each of us has his path. They run close together sometimes—for life, if we are fortunate—but they never cross.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick

Let the dead bury the dead...

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.

I kill things...and eat them." Axel Reid

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Time gives our lives numerous opportunities demarcated into moments that allow us to connect the dots while looking back.

Motion is life and life is motion, and a breakthrough is a catapult move that sets goals in motion.

The parent of every great and lasting decision is a thought. Therefore, contemplate deeply and thoroughly and then execute.

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

I've lost you, forever, so many times. And I'd do it all again.

The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.

I've dreamt of us falling in love and being together in a million different ways, yet I still wake up in the one way without you.

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)