You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.Frank McCourt
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.Frank McCourt
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.Frank McCourt
It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.Frank McCourt
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.Frank McCourt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.Frank McCourt
He says there’s no better teacher than an old newspaper.Mr. O'Halloran
There's nothing like an Irish education. A decade of rosary beads and broken knuckles.Frank McCourt
I don't understand myself so I don't see how anyone else could.Frank McCourt
I am Angela’s sad child, I tell her, weak from the hunger and the sorrow.Frank McCourt