Quotes about Normalcy

A surgeon in charge of my surgery rotation said that he knew who I was but that he was going to treat me as if I was normal. I sincerely thanked him and told him I would try to act that way.

The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.

John looked up from where he was crouched beside the fire, feeding it little bites of driftwood, and said, 'We'd better decide who wants hot dogs and who wants hamburgers because we haven't got too much time.' Everybody began talking about food, and things were better. There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life?

This story begins wherever there is enough courage and freedom and daring and sensibility to acknowledge that the pain of ruthless exploitation is not normal and cannot be borne.