Charles Kuralt Quotes

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Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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It is a speck of rock in pastel sea. Palms whisper. Songbirds sing. The place has never known a frost.

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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick beefsteak, and a hound dog. Then you feed the beefsteak to the hound dog.

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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

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Alaska's forests are the most welcoming I know. There are no ticks, no snakes, no poison ivy in Alaska.

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They deliberately chose Vermont, and a hard-working, old-fashioned life. I hear this attitude of Vermonters described as preventing the future.

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New Mexico is old, stupendously old and dry and brown, and wind-worn by the ages.

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It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

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