139 Quotes by Charles Kuralt

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

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

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.