Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Charles Kuralt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!