Quotes by : Frank McCourt

After a full belly all is poetry.

I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin

There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think....

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that....

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind.....

Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

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