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 Copy Share Image
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — 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 covering something… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
