272 Quotes by Frank McCourt

I can’t go back. The past won’t go away in this family...

There are bars of Pear’s soap and a thick book called Pear’s Encyclopedia, which keeps me up day and night because it tells you everything about everything and that’s all I want to know.

You are never to let anybody slam the door in your face again.

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.

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.

That’s a name for gangsters and politicians.

Ooh, aren’t we getting solemn, and where did I leave my soapbox? Look.

You can’t teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don’t you?

I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made public.