Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader) Quotes

“Oh God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt. And after the egg, is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh, warm bread and a mug of sweet, golden tea?”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else, but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. [...] Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish (...) it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“...and if I were in America I could say, I love you, Dad, the way they do in the films, but you can't say that in Limerick for fear you might be laughed at.
You're allowed to say love you God and babies and horses that win but anything else is a softness in the head.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“...but a man that drinks the money for a new baby is gone beyond the beyonds as my mother would say.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“I want to tell them I won't be able to die for the Faith because I'm already booked to die for Ireland.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“Misery”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“Michael zice că-i pare rău de viermii albi, dar noi știm că lui îi pare rau de tot ce viețuiește pe lume.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“E greu de priceput de ce-și ies oamenii mari din pepeni chiar așa de rău din cauza unor lucruri mărunte cum sunt capacele de aerisire. Când o să fiu om mare, n-o sa stau sa pocnesc copiii mici din cauză de capace de aerisire sau mai știu eu ce.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“Mobilați-vă mintea, mobilați-vă mintea. E casa voastră prețioasă și nimeni pe lumea asta nu se poate atinge de ea.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“It’s lovely to know the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“There are bars of Pear's soap and a thick book called Pear's Encyclopedia, which keeps me up day and night because it tells you everything about everything and that's all I want to know.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)