Charles Kuralt Quotes

If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.'

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I played on TV. In that respect, I want people to remember me for more than that.

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.