People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family. — Frank McCourt Alcoholism Copy Share Image
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't. — Frank McCourt America Copy Share Image
“There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.” — Frank McCourt Beholden Copy Share Image
“What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son.” — Frank McCourt Children Copy Share Image
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“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… — Frank McCourt Blessing Copy Share Image
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. — Frank McCourt Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting up in the bed with my knees pulled to my chest and there are tears that won't come to my… — Frank McCourt Tears Copy Share Image
“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 Art Copy Share Image
I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me… — Frank McCourt Afterlife Copy Share Image
He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she… — Frank McCourt Dream Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is… — Frank McCourt Bread Copy Share Image
I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and… — Frank McCourt College degree Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Catholic Copy Share Image
“JESUS & THE WEATHER I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“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 Children Copy Share Image
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. — Frank McCourt Experience Copy Share Image
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… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were… — Frank McCourt Courage Copy Share Image
If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman. — Frank McCourt Fireman Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. — Frank McCourt Book Copy Share Image
“When the dark clouds flutter like bats in my head I wish I could open a window and release them.” — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the… — Frank McCourt Book Copy Share Image
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.” — Frank McCourt Anemic Copy Share Image
Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine. — Frank McCourt Career Copy Share Image
