Frank McCourt Quotes

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• The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
• If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
• 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 clay.
• 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 punch them in…
• I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?
• It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
• He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t…
• 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…
• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious…
• I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...
• Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam…
• 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…
• I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for…
• After a full belly all is poetry.
• I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
• 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 I say the…
• The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I…
• Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
• I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.
• When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is…

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