Works
Famous Frank McCourt Quotes
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Context: He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
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'Tis (2000)
Source: ' Tis: a Memoir
Context: Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they're Irish and we should all have a drink? 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 get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen.
Frank McCourt Quotes about the world
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Frank McCourt Quotes
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes (1996)
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
“I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.”
Source: Angela's Ashes
Teacher Man (2005)
Angela's Ashes (1996)
Teacher Man (2005)
“If there was a circle, I was never a part of it. I prowled the periphery.”
Teacher Man (2005)
Teacher Man (2005)
Teacher Man (2005)
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'Tis (2000)
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'Tis (2000)
Teacher Man (2005)
Teacher Man (2005)
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'Tis (2000)
Teacher Man (2005)