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
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 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
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. – Elizabeth Wurtzel