139 Quotes by Charles Kuralt

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.

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

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.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.