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
book library literature
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
desire narcissism knows
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
beautiful hands fishing
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
memorable thinking rivers
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
believe reading writing
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
country stars fun
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
country moon people
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
kindness greed everyday
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
inspirational funny country
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
real world want
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
running country tradition
The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.
jobs years stories
For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?
years two rivers
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
interesting important news
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.