Top 165 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Brokaw - Page 3

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

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

The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

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.

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

There is no delete button for bigotry.

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.

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.

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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.

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

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

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

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

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

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 are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

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

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.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

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

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

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

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

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

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

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

No text message will ever replace the first kiss.

What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

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

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.

I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I've enjoyed living almost everywhere I've ever been. I just find that it's a different menu wherever you go.

Votes are something that you earn.

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.