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Danh ngôn của Frank McCourt (Sứ mệnh: 8)

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
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.
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
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.
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
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.