Frank McCourt Quotes

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.

Frank McCourt

Family
Past

Quotes to Explore

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

Earl Nightingale
- Mind
- Thoughts
- Direction
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

Magnus Larsson
- Human
- Create
- Activity
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Rachel Cusk
- Why
- True
- Free
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

J. Philippe Rushton
- Life
- God
- Believe
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

Barbara Block
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Harold Rosenberg
- Time
- World
- American