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

— Frank McCourt

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

— Frank McCourt

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

— Frank McCourt

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.

— Frank McCourt

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

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

— Frank McCourt

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

— Frank McCourt

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

— Frank McCourt

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

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

— Frank McCourt