I had a little insight into ...

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
 Charles Kuralt

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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
 Charles Kuralt
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
 Charles Kuralt
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Charles Kuralt
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?
 Charles Kuralt
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
 Charles Kuralt