60 Frank McCourt Quotes for You to Enjoy

Frank McCourt

Irish Author

Born: Aug 19, 1930

Died: Jul 19, 2009

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Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring. Frank McCourt

Life Life Is A Every Boring Mystery Nobody Normal Whose

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train. Frank McCourt

Home Me You Class Think Say About He Smiling Train Going Going Home Just Children Little Then Show Staring

If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university. Frank McCourt

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die. Frank McCourt

Experience Sense Of Humor Humor Sense Think About Something Had Irish Die

I'm a late bloomer. Frank McCourt

Late Late Bloomer

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor. Frank McCourt

Good Adversity Family Me Dignity People Humor Responsibility Poverty Way Some Had Around Felt Dealt Convey Reason Who Lived

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment. Frank McCourt

Great Entertainment Wake Form Funeral

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe. Frank McCourt

Teacher You School Pay Way High High School High School Teacher Scholars School Teacher Look Spain Teachers Europe Professor

I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights. Frank McCourt

Me Toilets Heights Please Those Dream Would Rise Something Could New Like Boy Up Times York Going New York New York Times Them Scrub If I Could Asking Copy

I can do no more than tell the truth. Frank McCourt

Truth Tell More Than

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap. Frank McCourt

Struggle Everything Fell Get Agent Lap Publisher

My sister died in Brooklyn. Frank McCourt

Sister Brooklyn Died

I never really fit in anywhere. Frank McCourt

Never Fit Anywhere Really

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it. Frank McCourt

Nothing Community Would About Never Knew New Talk Because Boy Fit Irish York New York Baseball Basketball

There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape. Frank McCourt

You World Nothing City Give Classroom New Like Up Escape York Front Getting New York New York City Hold Break Them

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure. Frank McCourt

Vision Madness Pure Country Everyone Dancing Kind Minister Some Crossroads Costume Had Prime Mass Prime Minister Exist Ireland Going Native Where Gaelic Which Away Babbling

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous. Frank McCourt

Public Schools Classes Schools Bloated Public Ridiculous

My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all. Frank McCourt

Library Congress Dream Catalogue Number

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me. Frank McCourt

Me Book Listening Those Seeing Gives Students Wrote Years Very Did After Former Keen Satisfaction Now

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