List of Charles Kuralt Quotes

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.

I Don't Think I Had A Reputation As A Hard Worker, But Inside I Was Always Being Eaten Up By The Pressures.

I Didn't Like The Competitiveness Of Big-time Journalism.

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 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.

I Don't Think One Should Ever Come To My Stage Of Life And Have To Look Back And Say, Gosh. I Wish I Hadn't Spent All Those Years Doing That Job I Was Never Really Interested In.

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.

For A While There, I Was A Stringer. The Expression Comes From The Old Habit Of Stringing Together The Column Inches That You Had Written. They'd Measure It And Pay You 10 Cents An Inch For Your Printed Copy.

I'm Not Any Kind Of Social Reformer.

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 Saw How Many People Were Poor And How Many Kids My Age Went To School Hungry In The Morning, Which I Don't Think Most Of My Contemporaries In Racially Segregated Schools In The South Thought Very Much About At The Time.