We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of the tunnel... AMERICA! -Frank Mccourt

 

We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of the tunnel... AMERICA!


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This quote is just one of 9 total Frank Mccourt quotes in our collection. Frank Mccourt is known for saying 'We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of the tunnel... AMERICA!' as well as some of the following quotes.

All those smells... and the kids, we were the great unwashed... nobody ever knew what a shower was... We washed maybe from eyebrow to chin, week after week after week. Our crotches were innocent of water.

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277

When I first came to New York and saw Italian families and their displays of affection, I was taken aback a bit because it was uninhibited.

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253
The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To be poor deprives you of self-esteem. -Frank Mccourt
178

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank Mccourt
177

I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternity. With devils chasing you for eternity with pitchforks. I trembled. I couldn't go to sleep for fear I might die and wake up in hell. I was in agony.

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156
We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of the tunnel... AMERICA! -Frank Mccourt
133

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Frank Mccourt
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