"You might be poor, your shoes might be……" — Frank McCourt

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

— Frank McCourt

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57 Quotes by Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried…
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can…
I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not…
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…
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…
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:…
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…
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 Broken Quotes

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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of… — Joe Baca
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
I've had my heart broken one too many times. — Tyra Banks
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families… — Gary Bauer
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the… — Simone de Beauvoir
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,… — Xavier Becerra
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right… — Henry Ward Beecher
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better,… — Gael Garcia Bernal
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. — Yogi Berra

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