American - Journalist | September 10, 1934 - July 4, 1997
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.
Charles Kuralt
LifeFatherMotherEyesSocietySaw
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.
LifeWorkGoodTimeJobLuck
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.
MorningAgeTimeSchoolPeoplePoor
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.
TodayDatingBoyLittleSocialNerd
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
WorkSuccessJoyPeopleThinkOwn
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
SleepThinkBetterLostDoneHard
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
SucceedThinkDrivingYouLabor
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
EverythingAlongJustReadVery
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
LovePeopleThinkGrowingNowWrite
I'm not any kind of social reformer.
KindSocialAnyReformer
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
FreedomMyselfFunAmericaWander
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
GoodLuckChanceWorshipHeroes
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Charles Kuralt quotes