I dont have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. – Charles Kuralt
I cant say that Ive changed anybodys life, ever, and thats the real work of the world, if you want a better society. – Charles Kuralt
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didnt have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. – Charles Kuralt
Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We dont honor them enough, we dont pay them enough. – Charles Kuralt
I cant remember a time when I didnt want to be a reporter. I dont know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. – Charles Kuralt
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 ones life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. – Charles Kuralt
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my fathers 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
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our familys subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. – Charles Kuralt
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didnt have girlfriends, and really I wasnt a very social boy. – Charles Kuralt
Its best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. – Charles Kuralt
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I dont think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. – Charles Kuralt
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. – Charles Kuralt
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
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. – Charles Kuralt
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. – Charles Kuralt
