Charles Kuralt

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#doing #greed #hostility #lot #motive

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

#belong #center #community #enough #grown-up

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

#country #hundreds #me #moon #people

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#across #burger #country #find #joints

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#come #doing #ever #gosh #hadn

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#back #everyday #greed #headlines #kindness

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. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

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

#bit #boy #called #girlfriends #i

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#driving #i #labor #needed #sleepless

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#admiration #friends #important #love #more