Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourtwas an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 August 1953
CountryIreland
teacher world
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
kissing emotional mouths
Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.
ghetto thinking church
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
mean giving parent
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
snow forever teeth
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
kids thinking ems
Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.
dream american-dream fantasy
I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
mean jewels mouths
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.
giving steam
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
teaching storytelling
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
wonder enough hyphens
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
age graves staring
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
children prayer school
I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
christmas memories kind
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.