Frank McCourt Quotes

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No, young man. No jokes here. There's a time and place. When you say something in class they take you seriously. You're the teacher. You say you went out with a sheep and they're going to swallow every word. They don't know the mating habits of the Irish.

Frank McCourt

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

Frank McCourt

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

Frank McCourt

They know it's a forty-minute showdown, you versus them.... They have you by the balls and you created the situation, man. You didn't have to talk to them like that. They don't care about your mood, your headache, your troubles. They have their own problems, and you are one of them.

Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

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Born: August 19, 1930

Died: July 19, 2009 (aged 78)

Bio: Francis "Frank" McCourt was 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.

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