Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuraltwas an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth10 September 1934
CityWilmington, NC
CountryUnited States of America
running home rivers
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.
coming fall hear
This is a place where you can hear fall coming for miles.
happiness happy trip
Sometimes I would think myself happy never to leave. Every trip must end.
ulcers pressure ive-learned
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
texas perfect beef
I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
baseball book thinking
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.
made print
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
real embarrassing-questions peaceful
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.
thinking stories lines
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.
towns stories kind
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
sunset sight storm
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
philosophy people important
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.
thinking pressure reputation
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
happiness thinking giving
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.