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Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.

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To read the papers and to listen to the news. . . one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Book, Country, Reading, Terrible, Trouble

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.

Baseball, Book, Interested, Single, Thinking

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

Enthusiasm, Important, Passion

What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

Loyalty, Memories, October, Stone, Wall

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

Bills, Bleachers, Heaven, Sun, Veeck, Warm

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.

Country, Rocky, Round, Spring, Tombstone

The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!

Art, Baseball, Girl, Greatest, Reading

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Bigs, Competitiveness, Journalism, Like

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

Bring, Good, Know, Literature, Retirement, Teacher

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

Conscience, National, Thing, Touched

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

Criticized, Friends, Made, Praised, Print

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

Giving, Happiness, Joy, People, Stories, Thinking

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

Accomplish, Conservatism, Country, Liberal Media, People, Years

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

Seeking, Sight, Storm, Storms, Sunset, Unexpected

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

Melancholy, Sorrow, Wind

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.

Father, Mad, Mother, Subscription, Working, Workout

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

Beheld, Desire, Know, My Own, Narcissism

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.

Knocking, Lucky, People, Romance, Wholesale

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.

Boys, Father, Hat, Hate, Reporters, Way

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.

Cents, Expression, Old Habits, Together, Written

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