The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. – Charles Kuralt
I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. – Charles Kuralt
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can’t think of one single book that changed my life in any way. – Charles Kuralt
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. – Charles Kuralt
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. – Charles Kuralt
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. – Charles Kuralt
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough. – Charles Kuralt
I can’t say that I’ve changed anybody’s life, ever, and that’s the real work of the world, if you want a better society. – Charles Kuralt
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. – Charles Kuralt
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. – Charles Kuralt
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn’t in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. – Charles Kuralt
It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. – Charles Kuralt
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I’d be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. – Charles Kuralt
I don’t think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. – Charles Kuralt
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. – Charles Kuralt
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. – Charles Kuralt
I think I’d have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I’d not lost quite so much sleep. – Charles Kuralt
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy. – Charles Kuralt
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a reporter. I don’t know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. – Charles Kuralt
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. – Charles Kuralt
