Charles Kuralt Quotes

The present will not long endure.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

All glory is fleeting.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Time stays, we go.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.