Charles Kuralt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”
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“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”
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“There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.”
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“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.”
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“It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.”
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“I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.”
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“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.”
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“Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.”
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“A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.”
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“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
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“I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.”
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“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”
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“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”
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“TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.”
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“We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.”
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“You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'”
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“There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.”
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“My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.”
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“I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.”
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“Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.”
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“I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.”
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