139 Quotes by 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.

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

I’m not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

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.

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It’s a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

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.

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.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn’t have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

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