Frank McCourt Childhood Quotations

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.