Tom Brokaw Family Quotations

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.

My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.