I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't. — Frank McCourt America Copy Share Image
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. — Frank McCourt Experience Copy Share Image
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. — Frank McCourt Age Copy Share Image
Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced… — Frank McCourt Balanced diet Copy Share Image
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die. — Frank McCourt Experience Copy Share Image
I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are… — Frank McCourt Father Copy Share Image
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when… — Frank McCourt Care Copy Share Image
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went… — Frank McCourt Christmas Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations.… — Frank McCourt Classroom Copy Share Image
“On the Left side of the blackboard I print a capital F on the right side another capital F. I draw an… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that… — Frank McCourt Book Copy Share Image
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. Never, never get a Mahommedan. They'll… — Frank McCourt Animal Copy Share Image
Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of… — Frank McCourt Ability Copy Share Image
If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family. — Frank McCourt Alcoholism Copy Share Image
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken… — Frank McCourt Affair Copy Share Image
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. — Frank McCourt Domestic life Copy Share Image
“In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he… — Frank McCourt Prohibition Copy Share Image
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere… — Frank McCourt Education Copy Share Image
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin. — Frank McCourt Dublin Copy Share Image
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future. — Frank McCourt Birth Copy Share Image
“Saturday night when you have a few shillings in your pocket is the most delicious night of the week.” — Frank McCourt Saturday night Copy Share Image
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
