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.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

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

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.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

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

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

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