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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?
— Frank McCourt
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
— Frank McCourt
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
— Frank McCourt
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.
— Frank McCourt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
— Frank McCourt
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
— Frank McCourt
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
— Frank McCourt
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family ...
— Frank McCourt
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
— Frank McCourt
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
— Frank McCourt
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
— Frank McCourt
They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
— Frank McCourt
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
— Frank McCourt
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
— Frank McCourt
he'll make Catholics of us,
— Frank McCourt
Teaching is bringing the news.
— Frank McCourt
If 'tis a sin, I don't give a Fiddler's fart!
— Frank McCourt
My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
— Frank McCourt
After a full belly all is poetry.
— Frank McCourt
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
— Frank McCourt
If you have anything to say, shut up!
— Frank McCourt
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
— Frank McCourt
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.
— Frank McCourt
Love her as in childhoodThrough feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay. — Frank McCourt
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
— Frank McCourt
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? — Frank McCourt
For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all.
— Frank McCourt
A mother's love is a blessingNo matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone. — Frank McCourt
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
— 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 public.
— Frank McCourt
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
— Frank McCourt
Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.
— Frank McCourt
I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin
— Frank McCourt
A job is death without dignity.
— Frank McCourt
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
— Frank McCourt
For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?
— Frank McCourt
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
— Frank McCourt
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
— Frank McCourt
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
— Frank McCourt
I don't give a fiddler's fart!
— Frank McCourt
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
— Frank McCourt
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
— Frank McCourt
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
— Frank McCourt
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
— Frank McCourt
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
— Frank McCourt
Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.
— Frank McCourt
Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
— Frank McCourt