Top 80 Charles Kuralt Quotes (2024 Update)
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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

51. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “You know, most reporters can’t go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.”

52. “You know, most reporters can’t go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I think I’d have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I’d not lost quite so much sleep.”

53. “I think I’d have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I’d not lost quite so much sleep.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.”

55. “The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.”

56. “I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can’t think of one single book that changed my life in any way.”

57. “The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can’t think of one single book that changed my life in any way.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.”

58. “My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.”

59. “I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

60. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I don’t think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”

61. “I don’t think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn’t, who praised me instead.”

62. “I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn’t, who praised me instead.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.”

63. “Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one’s life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.”

64. “Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one’s life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.”

65. “I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I’m not any kind of social reformer.”

66. “I’m not any kind of social reformer.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.”

67. “There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn’t like what I did on the air.”

68. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

69. “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.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

70. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

71. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

72. “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.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.”

73. “It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.”

74. “I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

75. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.”

76. “I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “I didn’t like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.”

77. “I didn’t like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

78. “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.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

79. “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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Charles Kuralt Quote: “It’s that enthusiasm, that passion for what you’re doing, that is most important.”

80. “It’s that enthusiasm, that passion for what you’re doing, that is most important.”

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Charles Kuralt Quote: “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.”

81. “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.”

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