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
years two rivers
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
rivers america stories
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
memorable thinking rivers
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
running rivers people
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
running home rivers
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.
happiness happy trip
Sometimes I would think myself happy never to leave. Every trip must end.
joy looks easy
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
sides spirit good-health
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
country stars yankees
You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.
thinking stories lines
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
journalism bigs competitiveness
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
ideas calling want
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.
running spring cutting
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
dog southern east
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.