“For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old...” — Charles Kuralt Quote

“For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.”

“I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.”

“I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”

“I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.”

“Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.”

“Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.”