Charles Kuralt

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. ”

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better 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. ”

I'm not any kind of social reformer. ”

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. ”

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. ”

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. ”

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. ”

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ”

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. ”