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
falling-in-love writing trying
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.
hate writing air
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
touched conscience
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
parent wanted
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
love-you mind might
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
light gone television
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
journalism bigs competitiveness
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
ideas calling want
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.
land native-land native
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
insomnia thinking ambitious
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
girlfriend boys dating
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.
jobs thinking years
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.
morning school kids
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.
jobs good-luck years
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.