F. A. Harper Quotes

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Don't miss your life.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Mutual defiance made them alike.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

There's something in everyone only they know.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.

Folk is bare bones music.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

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