Best Charles Kuralt Quotes
- The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. Admiration
- 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… Delusion
- 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… Belong
- The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Acts
- You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. Across
- I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. Ambitious
- Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. Across
- 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… Bit
- 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… Citizens
- Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Best
- 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… Exactly
- Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. Chance
- I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent… All
- I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Believe
- 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… Calling
- I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. Big
- I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. Eaten
- I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. All
- I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. Along
- In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. Anybody
- It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. Best
- My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do. Encouraged
- There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched. Conscience
- TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. Air
- We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. Achievement