Charles Kuralt quotes

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

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

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.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

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.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

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.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.