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Atticus
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- 1Atticus Finch"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... -Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"
- Atticus Finch - 2Atticus Finch"Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment."
- Scout - 3Atticus Finch"Now you tell your father not to teach you anymore. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage."
- Miss Caroline Fisher - 4Atticus Finch"Atticus says God's loving folks like you love yourself -"
- Scout - 5Atticus Finch"Atticus doesn't drink whisky," I said. "He never drunk a drop in his life -nome yes he did. He said he drank some one time and didn't like it."
- Scout - 6Atticus Finch"If Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of men who -who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one,"
- Miss Maudie - 7Atticus Finch"Atticus don't ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don't do in the yard,"
- Scout - 8Atticus Finch"Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets."
- Miss Maudie - 9Atticus Finch"Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common."
- Atticus - 10Atticus Finch"If you shouldn't be defending him then why are you doin' it?"
"For a number of reasons," said Atticus. "r The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again." - 11Atticus Finch"Atticus seemed to have forgotten my noon-time fall form grace; he was full of questions about school."
- Scout Finch - 12Atticus Finch"My replies were monosyllabic and he did not press me."
- Scout Finch - 13Atticus Finch"Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold it in, the better off everybody would be."
- Scout Finch - 14Atticus Finch"Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers."
- Cecil Jacobs - 15Atticus Finch"...Uncle Jack pecked Atticus on the cheek; they were the only two men we ever saw kiss each other."
- Scout Finch - 16Atticus Finch"It took Atticus's court-room voice to drag us away from the tree."
- Scout Finch - 17Atticus Finch"Sister, I do the best I can with them!"
- Atticus Finch - 18Atticus Finch"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."
- Atticus Finch - 19Atticus Finch"I just hope that Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town. I hope they trust me enough..."
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"...Atticus knew I was listening , and it was not until many years later that I realised he wanted me to hear every word he said."
- Scout Finch - 20Atticus Finch"Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness."
- Scout Finch - 21Atticus Finch"He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries,"
- Scout Finch - 22Atticus Finch"When Jem wanted to tackle him Atticus wold say: "I'm too old for that, son." "
- Scout Finch - 23Atticus Finch"...He wore glasses. He was nearly blind in his left eye, and said left eyes were the tribal cures of the Finches."
- Scout Finch - 24Atticus Finch"When he gave us our air rifles Atticus wouldn't teach us to shoot."
- Scout Finch - 25Atticus Finch"Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something,"
- Scout Finch - 26Atticus Finch"He did not do the things or schoolmates' fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He just sat in the living-room and read."
- Scout Finch - 27Atticus Finch"Everybody in the town's father was playing, it seemed, except Atticus."
- Scout Finch - 28Atticus Finch"If your father's anything, he's civilized in his heart."
- Miss Maudie - 29Atticus Finch"Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!"
- Jem Finch - 30Atticus Finch"A lovelier lady than our mother never lived, she said, and it was heart-breaking the was Atticus Finch let her children run wild."
- Scout Finch
(Mrs Dubose) - 31Atticus Finch"It was times like this when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
- Scout Finch - 32Atticus Finch"For the life of me, I did not understand how he could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic."
- Scout Finch - 33Atticus Finch"It's not time to worry yet,"
- Atticus Finch - 34Atticus"Scout, I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man."
- Atticus Finch - 35Atticus Finch"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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
- Atticus Finch - 36Atticus Finch"This church has no better friend than your daddy."
- Reverend Sykes - 37Atticus Finch"It was a sad thing that my father had neglected to tell me about the Finch Family,"
- Scout Finch - 38Atticus Finch"Do you really think so?" That was Atticus's dangerous question."
- Scout Finch
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- English Literature Flashcards on Atticus , created by Carla Hewitt on 07/05/2015.
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- Carla Hewitt · May 2015
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