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Charles Kuralt was a renowned American journalist known for his distinctive travel reporting style. Born on September 10, 1934, and passing away on July 4, 1997, Kuralt made a significant impact as a journalist. He was a correspondent and host for the '60 Minutes' program on CBS, winning the hearts of viewers with his heartfelt storytelling and unique perspective.

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“You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.”

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“I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.”

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“The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.”

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“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”

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“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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?”

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“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

About the Author

Born: September 10, 1934
Died: July 4, 1997
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 89

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