Tom Brokaw Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Tom Brokaw on Wise Famous Quotes.
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.
I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.
Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'
One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.
I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.
I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.
It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.
I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.
There on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.
I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.
In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.
Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.
The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.