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
ambition opportunity newspaper-reporters
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.
impact people stories
I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.
country appreciation struggle
I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
ulcers pressure ive-learned
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
sunset sight storm
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
texas perfect beef
I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
made print
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
real embarrassing-questions peaceful
I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
baseball team believe
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
people romance lucky
I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.
towns stories kind
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
passion important enthusiasm
It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
new-york cities light
New York is the true City of Light in any season.
typewriters joy trying
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.