O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom. — Maya Angelou
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. — Anne Stevenson
Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing. — Suzanne Collins
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! — Leonard Cohen
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. — John Dryden
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? — Alexander Pope
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO. — John Prine
Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you — Ieyasu Tokugawa
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. — William Blake
Short Mockingbird Quotes
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. — Harper Lee
Things are always better in the morning. — Harper Lee
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession. — Nancy Grace
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. — Harper Lee
You rarely win, but sometimes you do. — Harper Lee
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. — Harper Lee
Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard — Bob Marley
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. — Harper Lee
Mockingbird Image Quotes
To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. — Sissy Spacek
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee
It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. — Harper Lee
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. — Harper Lee
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... — Harper Lee
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. — Harper Lee
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. — Jim Trelease
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say." — Oprah Winfrey
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. — Harper Lee
Scout To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee
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. — Harper Lee
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout — Harper Lee
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. — Harper Lee
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. — Harper Lee
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. — Harper Lee
Atticus Being A Mockingbird Quotes
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. — Harper Lee
This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home. — Harper Lee
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. — Harper Lee
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. — Harper Lee
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. — Harper Lee
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. — Harper Lee
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding. — Harper Lee
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court. — Harper Lee
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society. — Harper Lee
Mockingjay Book Quotes
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. — Suzanne Collins
In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. — Suzanne Collins
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. — Suzanne Collins
I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have. — Suzanne Collins
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. — Harper Lee
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. — Harper Lee
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible. — Harper Lee
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. — Harper Lee
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? — Annie Dillard
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple. — Harper Lee
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds? — Laurie Halse Anderson
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. — Harper Lee
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? — Bertrand Russell
I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen through a child's eyes. It was Harper Lee going back and writing it from the way a child would see those things. — Mara Wilson
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. — Harper Lee
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family. — Harper Lee
Let the dead bury the dead. — Harper Lee
hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch — Harper Lee
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. — Harper Lee
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