You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
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… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
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… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share
