Frank McCourt Quotes

If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

Topics

GodBelieveReadingLibraryStreet

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

John Dewey

MotivationalGoalStartingPoint

In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.

Robert Kennedy

StrengthLeadershipGreatMenLaw

The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

Jeff Goodell

WorkPeopleInspireQuestionsNew

I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.

Amy Weber

TimeBabyFreeBackNowFirst Time

I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.

Steve Harvey

WorkGreatManMeSingingLoved

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Stephen Wolfram

WorkThinkSameProgrammingPretty

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.

Robert Caro

LifeMomentRoseMy LifeI CanNew

I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.

Johnny Iuzzini

BootsLookJeansWearHalfCowboy

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

Christy Romano

LookingNowRightOutWithinGoing

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

Brantley Gilbert

GoodAlwaysPlayingStartedKnew

Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.

Bozoma Saint John

KnowEveryoneGoingHappening

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

Brad Feld

LifeBusinessDeathSurvivalNever

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