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."

"I'm not any kind of social reformer."

"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."

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

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."

"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."

"TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air."