Tom Brokaw Quotes

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

As I walked the beaches with the American veterans
who had returned for this anniversary,
men in their sixties and seventies,
and listened to their stories,
I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done.
Tom Brokaw

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and
the books that followed has been
one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
Tom Brokaw

I think that we honor ourselves by
honoring our past.
Tom Brokaw

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Tom Brokaw

A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try to contemplate how I wanted to live the rest of my life.
Tom Brokaw

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