Top 45 Quotes by Charles Kuralt

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

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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.

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.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

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.

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

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.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.