272 Quotes by Frank McCourt

Teenagers have two moods: Horny and Hungry." ()

Something happened to the spirit in the famine, and they retreated into their caverns and into themselves. And they haven't come out." ()

This is an iconic team in Dodger history. It's not just any other team." ()

It's important to celebrate not just winning, but a type of winning we can respect. This is a team we can all relate to. They had that thing called character. This is a team worthy of this weekend's celebration." ()

All those smells... and the kids, we were the great unwashed... nobody ever knew what a shower was... We washed maybe from eyebrow to chin, week after week after week. Our crotches were innocent of water." ()

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for the love o' God, drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams.