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You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
— Charles Kuralt
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
— Charles Kuralt
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
— Charles Kuralt
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
— Charles Kuralt
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
— Charles Kuralt
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling 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 think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
— Charles Kuralt
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
— Charles Kuralt
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
— Charles Kuralt
I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
— Charles Kuralt
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
— Charles Kuralt
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
— Charles Kuralt
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
— Charles Kuralt
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
— 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
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
— Charles Kuralt
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
— Charles Kuralt
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
— Charles Kuralt
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
— Charles Kuralt
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
— 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
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
— Charles Kuralt
Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.
— Charles Kuralt
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.
— Charles Kuralt
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
— Charles Kuralt
New York is the true City of Light in any season.
— Charles Kuralt
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
— 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
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
— Charles Kuralt
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
— Charles Kuralt
...it is as it was meant to be...
— Charles Kuralt
I'm not any kind of social reformer.
— Charles Kuralt
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
— Charles Kuralt
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
— Charles Kuralt
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
— Charles Kuralt
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
— Charles Kuralt
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
— Charles Kuralt
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
— Charles Kuralt
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people ... We are a nation rich in rivers.
— Charles Kuralt
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
— Charles Kuralt
If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
— Charles Kuralt
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
— 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
You know, I've always wanted to be a young Charles Kuralt. I started in this business with just a Winnebago and a dream.
— Jon Stewart
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
You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
— Charles Kuralt
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
— 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
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
— Charles Kuralt
