When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes kill mockingbird read
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. Tom Brokaw journalismstorytelling Change image and share on social
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. Tom Brokaw 60samericancalm share on social
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation. Tom Brokaw absorballowconsumption Change image and share on social
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. Daniel Tammet amountconsiderablyfiction share on social
Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from. Margaret Stohl admitbelongcommunity share on social
It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. Ginnifer Goodwin breakcouragefind Change image and share on social
