The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
—Charles Kuralt
Topics: Kindness
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
—Charles Kuralt
Topics: Eating
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
—Charles Kuralt
Topics: Originality, Achievement, Success & Failure
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.
—Charles Kuralt
Topics: Patriotism, Country
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt
Topics: Now, Tourism, Travel
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