272 Quotes by Frank McCourt

I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.

There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.

If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.