{"author":"Charles Kuralt","author_id":"Charles+Kuralt","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["me","moon","rich "],"id":3223,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["life","live","look "],"id":13600,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["dining","food","humor","navigation","stars","travel"],"id":49682,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["kindness","greed","roads "],"id":62901,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["community","wise","society "],"id":88295,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["good","luck","heroes "],"id":132787,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["father","hat","boy "],"id":135117,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["good","writing","reading "],"id":171883,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["work","time","school "],"id":181346,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"},{"text":"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.","author":"Charles Kuralt","tags":["travel","thanks","country "],"id":202019,"author_id":"Charles+Kuralt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}