"Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had……" — Nancy Gibbs
"Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes."
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104 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs has 104 quotes on this site.
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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
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If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us…
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who…
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the…
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on…
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You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him…
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton…
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and…
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just…
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In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version…
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You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
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More Carved Quotes
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In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this…
— James Keller
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved…
— Sara Teasdale
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant…
— N. T. Wright
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Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God,…
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is…
— Horace Mann
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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual…
— Ray Kroc
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I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do…
— Eric Asimov
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved…
— Howard Zinn
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
— Michelangelo
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There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a…
— Jim Carrey
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The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more…
— Jack Horner
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