Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
I'm a late bloomer.
I hated school in Ireland.
My sister died in Brooklyn.
Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
After a full belly all is poetry.
I don't know anything about a stock!
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
One day a week should be set aside for field trips.
Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.
I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.
I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.
When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.
