Frank McCourt Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

  Frank McCourt

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Shoes

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Bullying, Father

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

  Frank McCourt

  Poverty, Absurd, Absurdity

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