Tom Brokaw Life Quotations

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

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

In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it.

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

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.