Quotes by Charles Kuralt

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

— Charles Kuralt

Love

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

— Charles Kuralt

Education

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.

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

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

Education

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

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

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.

— Charles Kuralt

Success

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

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

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

Friendship

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

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

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

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

— Charles Kuralt

Success

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

— Charles Kuralt

Happiness

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

Education

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

— Charles Kuralt

Success

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

— Charles Kuralt

Love

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

— Charles Kuralt

Education

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

— Charles Kuralt

Life

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 it.

— Charles Kuralt

Love

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.

— Charles Kuralt

Freedom

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

— Charles Kuralt

Wisdom

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

— Charles Kuralt

Courage

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

Wisdom