Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuraltwas an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth10 September 1934
CityWilmington, NC
CountryUnited States of America
happiness thinking giving
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
literature reader
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
light gone television
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
love-you mind might
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
parent wanted
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
touched conscience
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
hate writing air
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
philosophy people important
I don't 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.
expression old-habits together
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
mother father kids
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.
jobs good-luck years
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.
insomnia thinking ambitious
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
wind sorrow melancholy
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
song winter singing
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.