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.
country years liberal-media
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?
writing thinking years
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
fun years america
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
jobs thinking years
I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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.
jobs years stories
For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?
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.