I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
Charles Kuralt

I'm not any kind of social reformer.
Charles Kuralt

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

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

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

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

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles Kuralt

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

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
Charles Kuralt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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