Catholic Quote by Frank McCourt

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

— Frank McCourt

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

— Frank McCourt

“I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made…

— Frank McCourt

“Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did it after…

— Bob Thurber

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a…

— Tim Conway

I felt so miserable for my whole childhood. All my parents could do was try their best.

— Chappell Roan

“Looking around, I wondered why Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, had later become so nostalgic for it. I knew…

— Ernest Cline

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was…

— James Hillman

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow…

— Juan Gabriel

“As of 1641, the indigenous Irish Catholics owned an estimated three-fifths of the land of Ireland but, just 24 years later,”

— Thomas Sowell

I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.

— Brendan Hunt