Цитаты из книги «Убить пересмешника», страница 81

Эти ногомойщики полагают, что я слишком много времени провожу под божьим небом и слишком мало сижу в четырех стенах над словом божиим.

Переубедить Канингема может только чудо, да и то в паре с другим Канингемом.

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankee s and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious — because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe — some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others — some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

Ясно, докажу. А как же, по-вашему, я расписываюсь, когда получаю пособие?

...but there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

«Они делали так прежде и сделают ещё не раз, и плачут при этом, видно, одни только дети»

Находку полагается хранить - вдруг отыщется хозяин, и только если не отыщется совсем, тогда она твоя.

Ничего не надо страшиться, кроме страха (из речи президента Франклина Делано Рузвельта)

- 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 sing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. ©