Quotes & Sayings About Slavery In To Kill A Mockingbird

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. — Frank Herbert

when I get up in the morning I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again. I — Anne Tyler

The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straightening as he or she drew nearer. Unfolding ... — Laird Barron

I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law. — Mary Katharine Ham

The long matrimonial haul was accomplished in cycles. One cycle of bad breath, one cycle of renewed desire, a third cycle of breakdown and small avoidances, still another of plays and dinners that spurred a conversation between them late at night that reminded her of their like minds and the pleasure they took in each other's talk. And then back to hating him for not taking out the garbage on Wednesday. That was the struggle. Sickness and death, caretaking, the martyrdom of matrimony
that was fluff stuff. When the vows kick in, you don't even blink. You just do. She had to be up for it. — Joshua Ferris

There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle. — Karl Marx

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. — Clay Aiken

If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity. — Patrick Henry

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival. — Nathan Englander

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself. — Terry Pratchett

He was a reporter for The Adversary. It was his job to stalk people. He was one step above paparazzi and a couple below common variety garden snake.
- Jae-Sun Fields, pg. 28 — Z.A. Maxfield