Clyde Edgerton Quotes

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.

I love helping the kids.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

I don't want to go into a marriage just because of my age - too many people make that mistake. But of course I'd like to be married one day - I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

There is a good chance that, at 60, I will be in a wheelchair, but hey, I signed up for that. I know that.

My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in.

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

I want to find somebody who is going to be a mother to my children.

I help my loved ones.

When you have a child who has special needs, you really start thinking about children across the board with special needs.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

One foote is better then two crutches.

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.