Tom Brokaw Quotes

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

No text message will ever replace the first kiss.

It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers.

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.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option

Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.

Votes are something that you earn.

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

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.

There is no delete button for bigotry.

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

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.