Tom Brokaw Quotes

Author Image

Tom Brokaw

Profession : Journalist

Birth : February 6, 1940

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Tom Brokaw

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Tom Brokaw

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.

Tom Brokaw

I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'

Tom Brokaw

I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment.

Tom Brokaw

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

Tom Brokaw

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Tom Brokaw

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

Tom Brokaw

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.

Tom Brokaw

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.

Tom Brokaw

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

Tom Brokaw

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

Tom Brokaw

We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.

Tom Brokaw

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

Tom Brokaw

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.

Tom Brokaw

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

Tom Brokaw

We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

Tom Brokaw

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

Tom Brokaw