The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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Quotes by Charles Kuralt
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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
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.
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 everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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.
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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.
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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