Charles Kuralt Quotes

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• 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…
• The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it…
• 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 run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
• Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand…
• 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.
• I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
• It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish…
• What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls,…
• There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
• Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
• It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in…
• What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then…
• A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
• ...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.
• You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or…
• I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
• America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
• Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins,…
• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression…

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