Tom Brokaw Quotes

I wouldn't say I grew up with a silver spoon. Yeah, I was very fortunate. I have a great family.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

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

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

I want you to know that I am one of the more fortunate people in life. There aren't too many of us that somebody selects and says, 'You know, that guy ought to be an umpire.' That's what happened to me.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things, and there is no rhyme or reason. I am very lucky because I come from England, and you have a whole range of things offered to you, from television plays and shows and theatre, so much more to explore, so it's never really money.

I've had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.

I definitely count my blessings. I feel like I've had such a great ride. Early on, to be able to work with some of the people I did, I feel really lucky.

I'm aware that there are a million other people who want what I'm lucky enough to have right now.

I'm lucky in a lot of ways. And in my family life, my home life, is where I count myself the luckiest.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

I've always felt really lucky and really privileged with my life, how I grew up, and the opportunities I've had.

I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest country in the world - New Zealand.