Norman Rockwell Painting Quotes

#1. Everything about Jocelyn had been ordinary. A Norman Rockwell painting of mom, dad, one boy, one girl. Scott was her wild storm, her great American novel, her epic story. Every extraordinary moment she experienced was because of him.

Jessica Shook

#2. Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting. (pg 106-107)

Katja Millay

#3. Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

James K. Morrow

#4. People always describe small towns as quaint or cozy or familiar. "You know who your neighbors are," they always seemed to say. But what you won't find depicted in a Norman Rockwell painting is how cruel those same neighbors can be.

T. Torrest

#5. The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Norman Rockwell

#6. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...

Henry Giroux

#7. It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

Norman Rockwell

#8. The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Ron Eglash

#9. Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

James J. Wilhelm

#10. India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#11. My blessings outweigh my regrets.

Dennis Lehane

#12. Tatiana had always thought she would not make a very good Communist. She liked Mikhail Zoshchenko's stories too much.

Paullina Simons

#13. Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?

Eminem

#14. Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

James Wolcott

#15. I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much ... that I had a hard time painting him.

Norman Rockwell

#16. What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.

Julian Castro

#17. The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Brene Brown

#18. The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Norman Rockwell

#19. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Yasunari Kawabata

#20. When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Judy Gold

#21. Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

Henry Rollins