Frank McCourt Quotes

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.

- Frank McCourt

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You don't see the streets crawling with priests and nuns the way you used to. A lot of the priests go around now in ordinary civilian clothes. And it's hard to distinguish a nun from a housewife anymore except they have a special kind of haircut. - Frank McCourt

I had no expectations. As I said to my wife, recently, I might be reviewed in the New York Times Book Review... And then I'd get my Library of Congress catalog number. And then I'd recede into obscurity and I'd get a job like everybody else. - Frank McCourt

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside. - Frank McCourt