Frank McCourt

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

— Frank McCourt

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

— Frank McCourt

“Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, take care of the…

— Frank McCourt

“Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit…

— Frank McCourt

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

— Frank McCourt

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

— Frank McCourt

Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

— Frank McCourt

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery,…

— Frank McCourt

Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral.…

— Frank McCourt

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

— Frank McCourt

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

— Frank McCourt

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

— Frank McCourt

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy…

— Frank McCourt

“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or…

— Frank McCourt

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

— Frank McCourt

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;…

— Frank McCourt

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

— Frank McCourt

“Here I am looking at my lovely ten-year-old daughter, Maggie, in her white dress, singing Protestant hymns with the choir at the…

— Frank McCourt

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the…

— Frank McCourt

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get…

— Frank McCourt

I don't know anything about a stock!

— Frank McCourt

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

— 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.…

— Frank McCourt

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else…

— Frank McCourt

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

— Frank McCourt