Charles Kuralt Quotes
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I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
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I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
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It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
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I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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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.
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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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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.
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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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New York is the true City of Light in any season.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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.
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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.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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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.
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The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.
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I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
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I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.
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It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?
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If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
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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.
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