Charles Kuralt quotes

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. (Charles Kuralt)
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. View quote
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. View quote
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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. View quote
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. View quote
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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 them enough, we don't pay them enough. View quote
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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. View quote
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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 superiority. View quote
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. View quote
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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 troubling to me. View quote
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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 unimportant, which was more interesting to me. (Charles Kuralt)
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. View quote
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. View quote
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. View quote
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do. View quote
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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. View quote
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Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. View quote
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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. View quote
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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. View quote
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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched. View quote
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. (Charles Kuralt)
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. View quote
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. View quote
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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. View quote
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. View quote
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