Tom Brokaw Quotes

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

In great deeds something abides.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

People aren't universally heroic.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.