Frank McCourt Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself.
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.
Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay.
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay.
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed?
He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?
He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?
For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all.
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 gone.
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone.
I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made public.
I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
This is the situation in the public schools of America: The farther you travel from the classroom the greater your financial and professional rewards.