Charles Kuralt Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Wise, Wisdom, Teacher

• Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

  Charles Kuralt

  Teacher, Retirement, Literature

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  People, Greed, Literature

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Flames, Justice

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Moon, People

• Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

  Charles Kuralt

  Joy, Looks, Literature

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Book, Library, Literature

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Baseball, Book, Thinking

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Girlfriend, Boys, Dating

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Falling In Love, Writing, Trying

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Philosophy, People, Important

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Growing Up, Kids, Firefighter

• I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

  Charles Kuralt

  Literature, Reader

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Mother, Workout, Father

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Romantic Love, Would Be, Looks

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Retirement, School, Trying

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Mother, Father, Kids

• 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.

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  Father, Hate, Boys

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Morning, Kids, School

• I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

  Charles Kuralt

  Real, Literature, World

• 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.

  Charles Kuralt

  Fun, America, Years

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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