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Category: Frank McCourt

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.

Simple, Tea, Saying

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Sky, Limit, You

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.

Education, School, Me

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

life-experience

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Glow, Just, Hard

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.

School, High School, You

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.

School, Battle, Me

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

When I was a teacher, I’d walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I – and I would direct the class, most of the time.

Time, Man, Walk

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Experience, I Am, Interested

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.

Mother, Vacation, Lonely

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

Memory, Me, Kind