FINCH in Classic Quotes

1  Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

3  It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing, and make their living from cotton.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1