Charles Kuralt Quotes

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Charles Kuralt

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

Charles Kuralt

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 social boy.

Charles Kuralt

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

Charles Kuralt

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

Charles Kuralt

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.

Charles Kuralt

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.

Charles Kuralt

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.

Charles Kuralt

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

Charles Kuralt

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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 read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Charles Kuralt

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

Charles Kuralt