Tom Brokaw Time 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.

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

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

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.

The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.

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,