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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

#belong #center #community #enough #grown-up

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 #hundreds #me #moon #people

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

#better #changed #ever #i #life

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

#around #being #books #enough #everything

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

#age #contemporaries #how #hungry #i

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

#assignment #assignments #freedom #fun #had

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#change #into #know #later #leap

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

#any #baseball #book #books #changed

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#covering #happen #hard #i #important

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. ↗

— Chiaki Kuriyama

#fascination #i #i can #japanese #really