You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
Charles KuraltWhat you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
Charles KuraltYou know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
Charles KuraltThat was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
Charles KuraltI 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