Charles Kuralt Quotes

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

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

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.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

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

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

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

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.

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

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

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

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

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.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

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.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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.