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
happy hard recalls
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
happens
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
christmas mother lonely
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.
brother jobs dad
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk
use croquet doomed
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?
dad son sickness
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
significance my-own insignificant
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
empty-mind house world
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
christmas memories kind
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
dance song tales
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
food eating belly
After a full belly all is poetry.
giving steam
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
ideas afterlife church
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
mother love-is blessing
A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.