It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My family was pretty much the way a family was supposed to be, a Norman Rockwell kind of family, I'm afraid. I… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
“It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell.… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
“The startling truth is this: as this narrative unfolded, amidst all the voices breaking free, telling their stories for the first time,… — Jane Allen Petrick Copy Share Image
Nick's just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They're very 'American Gothic,' and his parents are so kind, and they're not brash… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
“Though the ending is schmaltzy, there was bite enough in the film to distinguish it from a Norman Rockwell vision of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week.… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
“Maria winks at me, takes a mouthful of stuffing, and rolls her eyes in ecstasy. The next forty minutes are a festival… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The next forty minutes are a festival of soul eating. I know many immigrant families incorporate their traditional dishes into the Thanksgiving… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell - even though we think of him as a great American artist, in a lot of museums he has not… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
My father grew up in a Norman Rockwell postcard. His mother was a stay-at-home mom, his father was a rural mailman, they… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
“Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.” — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
