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
mother father kids
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.
hero luck worship
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
expression old-habits together
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.
literature reader
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
earthquakes planets unfinished
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
passion important enthusiasm
It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
new-york cities light
New York is the true City of Light in any season.
typewriters joy trying
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
girl baseball art
The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!
heaven sun bills
If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
heard asks
You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
sides spirit good-health
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
country stars yankees
You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.
joy looks easy
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.