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Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.
- Frank McCourt
#Diet
#Fat
#Nobody
#Simple
#Tea
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
- Frank McCourt
#Christmas
#Me
#Memory
#Never
#Where
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
- Frank McCourt
#Back
#Christmas
#Mother
#Never
#Three
We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
- Frank McCourt
#Bicycle
#Father
#People
#Shoes
#Welfare
I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
- Frank McCourt
#High School
#High
#Learning
#New
#School
My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.
- Frank McCourt
#Born
#Father
#I Was Born
#Mother
#New
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
- Frank McCourt
#Book
#Happens
#Matter
#Next
#Nothing
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
- Frank McCourt
#Bed
#Hair
#Place
#Reason
#Red
I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.
- Frank McCourt
#About
#Know
#Me
#Nobody
#Yourself
If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
- Frank McCourt
#Beside
#Holy
#Make
#Should
#Sitting
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
- Frank McCourt
#Learned
#Life
#My Own
#Own
#Significance
When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
- Frank McCourt
#Anything
#Chance
#Education
#High
#Me
#School
We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.
- Frank McCourt
#High School
#Look
#School
#Teacher
#Way
I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.
- Frank McCourt
#Above
#Felt
#Hierarchy
#Just
#Superior
You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?
- Frank McCourt
#Know
#Look
#People
#Rome
#Say
And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.
- Frank McCourt
#Always
#Excited
#Know
#Sex
#Touch
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
- Frank McCourt
#Battle
#Me
#New
#School
#Teacher
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
- Frank McCourt
#Childhood
#Happy
#While
#Worth
#Your
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
- Frank McCourt
#Easy
#Everyone
#Story
#Tell
#Write
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
- Frank McCourt
#Glow
#Happiness
#Hard
#Just
#Recall
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
- Frank McCourt
#Experience
#Never
#Same
#Sky
#Twice
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