Frank Mccourt quotes

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

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

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.