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. -Charles Kuralt Romantic
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. -Charles Kuralt Society
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. -Charles Kuralt Thankful
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. -Charles Kuralt Education
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. -Charles Kuralt Family
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. -Charles Kuralt Travel
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. -Charles Kuralt Dating
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. -Charles Kuralt Romantic
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. -Charles Kuralt Movies
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. -Charles Kuralt Teacher
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. -Charles Kuralt Society
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. -Charles Kuralt Society
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. -Charles Kuralt Travel
