GardenersCardiff answers:

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

“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, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.”

“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.”

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

GardenersCardiff answers:

The edition of the book in my library is the Warner Books paperback edition published in 1988. It is to that edition that I shall be referring.

NOTES: Regarding QUOTE 1, there are a number of places in the novel when Scout listens to abuse because Atticus is defending Tom Robinson. I have selected the instance closest in time to the explanation Atticus provides in QUOTE 2a below. Regarding all of the QUOTES below, I have included exchanges so that the context is clearer. If you wish, you may simply use the text you prefer.

___QUOTE 1: CHAPTER 9, p.77 (first pages of Chapter 9) — Cecil Jacobs teases Scout about her father’s defending ni_ gers. Scout asks Attucus about what Cecil Jabobs meant.

__[Scout as narrator] “…My fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly. 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 in, the better off everybody would be. I soon forgot. Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended ni_ gers. I denied it, but told Jem…”
__[Scout] “Do you defend ni_ gers, Atticus?…”
__[Atticus] “Of course I do. Don’t say ni_ ger, Scout. That’s common.”
__[Scout] “‘s what everybody at school says….Do all lawyers defend n-Ne_ groes, Atticus?”
__[Atticus] “Of course they do, Scout.”
__[Scout] “Then why did Cecil say you defended ni_ gers? He made it sound like you were runnin‘ a still.”

____QUOTE 2a: CHAPTER 9, pp. 77-78 (first pages of Chapter 9 and immediately after Scout’s question in QUOTE 1 above) — Atticus is speaking to Scout.

__[Atticus] “…I’m simply defending a N_ gro—his name’s Tom Robinson. He lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump. He’s a member of Calpurnia’s church, and Cal knows his family well. She says they’re clean-living folks. Scout, you aren’t old enough to understand some things yet, but there’s been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn’t do much about defending this man. It’s a peculiar case—it won’t come to trial until summer session. John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement…”
__[Scout] “If you shouldn’t be defendin‘ him, then why are you doin’ it?”
__[Atticus] “For a number of reasons…The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.”
__[Scout] “You mean if you didn’t defend that man, Jem and me wouldn’t have to mind you any more?….Why?”
__[Atticus] “Because I could never ask you to mind me again. Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: 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… it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

____QUOTE 2b: CHAPTER 11, p. 108 (within the first 10 pages of Chapter 11) — Mrs. Dubose has insulted Atticus for defending ni_ gers; and Jem becomes so angry that he tears up her garden. When Atticus comes home, he tells Jem to return to Mrs. Dubose’s. Scout asks Atticus about his defending Tom Robinson and Atticus replies.

__[Atticus] “Scout…when summer comes you’ll have to keep your head about far worse things… it’s not fair for you and Jem, I know that, but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down—well, all I can say is, when you and Jem are grown, maybe you’ll look back on this with some compassion and some feeling that I didn’t let you down. This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscience—Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man.”
__[Scout] “Atticus, you must be wrong…most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong…”
__[Atticus] “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions…but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with my with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Good luck!

GardenersCardiff answers:

I would recommend finding a quote that was made about the structure, about what it was intended to be. Kind of a visionary quote for what they hoped to make the MSG into. (Maybe something symbolic or deeply philosophical.)

“My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

http://thinkexist.com/search/searchQuotation.asp?search=madison+square Very useful for quotes!

GardenersCardiff answers:

LOVE QUOTES –

“Hatred can be overcome only by love.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.” – Henry Rollins

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love” – Ovid

“That which is loved is always beautiful” – Norwegian Proverb

“Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.” – Seneca

“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

QUOTES ON BROKEN HEARTS –

“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?” – Oscar Wilde

“The human heart knows thing the eyes cant see, and feels the things the mind cant understand.. But if love is just a word, then why does it hurt so much when you find it is not there???” – vanessa schiffer

“I didn’t expect to fall for you, but I did. I didn’t expect you to break my heart, but you did. I didn’t expect the wounds to heal, and they didn’t.” – Ani Ovasapyan

“If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman” – Coco Chanel

“Great loves too must be endured” – Coco Chanel

“I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone.” – Willie Nelson

LIFE QUOTES –

“Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” – William Penn

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a great refuge from home life” – George Bernard Shaw

“Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.” – Confucius

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G. K. Chesterton