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
Charles Kuralt quotes about
coming fall hear
This is a place where you can hear fall coming for miles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
insomnia thinking ambitious
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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.
earthquakes planets unfinished
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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.
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.
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.