Ashes Quote by Frank McCourt Download Open image “The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.” — Frank McCourt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashes Childhood Children Happiness Happy Happy childhood Hardly Worth Your
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥ — Susan Branch Copy Share Image
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… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know. — Frank McCourt 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
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a… — Frank McCourt 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
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — 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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes. — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
