139 Quotes by Charles Kuralt

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

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 was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

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.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.