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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
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More quotes by Frank McCourt
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.
Frank McCourt
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
Frank McCourt
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
Frank McCourt
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
Frank McCourt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Frank McCourt
There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.
Frank McCourt
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
Frank McCourt
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
Frank McCourt
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
Frank McCourt
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt
A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.
Frank McCourt
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
Frank McCourt
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Frank McCourt
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
Frank McCourt
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
Frank McCourt
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
Frank McCourt
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
Frank McCourt
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
Frank McCourt