"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at……" — Frank McCourt
"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave."
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Frank McCourt
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57 Quotes by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt has 57 quotes on this site.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying…
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Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried…
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can…
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I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not…
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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and…
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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…
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:…
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I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...
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Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on…
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is…
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More Advanced Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced…
— John Adams
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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