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
wind sorrow melancholy
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
country years liberal-media
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?
writing thinking years
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
growing-up kids firefighter
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
running rivers people
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
retirement school trying
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
romantic-love looks way-to-live
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
mother workout father
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
running spring cutting
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
dog southern east
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
southern said southerner
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
reality people remember
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
song winter singing
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.
kind social reformers
I'm not any kind of social reformer.