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 Read Quote
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. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
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. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
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. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
I wasn’t a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. Charles Kuralt Read Quote
