Maycombian Quotes & Sayings

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. — Gloria Swanson

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle. — Ami McKay

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry ... — Julia McNair Wright

Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them. — Harper Lee

Tim turned around, and took a few steps away from her. It was as though a lever had been pulled that activated several mixtures of emotions that left him in a bizarre land searching through a wide forest for a particular tree that had an emergency shade of peace. He turned back around, and stood with his hands in his pockets. An empty bucket of happiness had been dumped out on the road of his burst bubble, and left him longing for the substance of a smile. — Calvin W. Allison

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read. — Marilynne Robinson

Being an actor is wonderful and it's a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can't fit this or that. It's important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on. — Gabourey Sidibe

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator. — David Ignatius

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock.
("In The Court Of The Dragon") — Robert W. Chambers

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. — Oscar Wilde

Even
The bed of love, that in the imagination
Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
And as soon finished. — William Butler Yeats

In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through. — Larry McMurtry

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn. — Mark Driscoll

Sometime it is necessary for us to go a step further than merely writing words on paper. — Lisa Conell

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. — Cate Blanchett

Aunty! Jean Louise groaned. Coffees were peculiarly Maycombian in nature. They were given for girls who came home. Such girls were placed on view at 10:30 A.M. for the express purpose of allowing the women of their age who had remained enisled in Maycomb to examine them. Childhood friendships were rarely renewed under such conditions. — Harper Lee

A man in debt is so far a slave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson