Clyde Edgerton famous quotes

03-24-2025

Because I was born in the South, Iâ€™m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Would Be #West #Born
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Morning #Two #Tomatoes
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Father #Daddy #Papa
I believe theres a secret chemical thats turned loose when you have kids that says youve got to survive, youve got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Running #Strong #Believe
Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, weve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Children #Men #Tolerance
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Children #Dad #Father
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Children #Adults #Definitions
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Fun #Father #Play
Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.
-- Clyde Edgerton

#Advice #Firsts #Refrigerators

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Clyde Edgerton famous quotes

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