Charles Kuralt

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

— Charles Kuralt

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

— Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

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

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

— Charles Kuralt

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not…

— 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

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,…

— Charles Kuralt

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did…

— Charles Kuralt

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

— 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…

— Charles Kuralt

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

— Charles Kuralt

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that…

— Charles Kuralt

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

— Charles Kuralt

Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod…

— 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

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million…

— Charles Kuralt

I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as…

— Charles Kuralt

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I…

— Charles Kuralt

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

— Charles Kuralt

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a…

— Charles Kuralt

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

— Charles Kuralt

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home…

— Charles Kuralt

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go…

— Charles Kuralt

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted…

— Charles Kuralt