Charles Kuralt Quotes

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Charles Kuralt

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 10, 1934

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

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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.

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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 romantic calling.

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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.

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

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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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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.

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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.

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

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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

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I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

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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.

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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.

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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

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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.

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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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