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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland



Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~Elizabeth Stone



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis




Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter




There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994



The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball




Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth



It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

No regrets: Elizabeth McGovern left Hollywood to live in London with her

Elizabeth McGovern, with husband Simon Curtis and daughter

director/co-executive producer Jim Frawley and Elizabeth McGovern

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

Elizabeth McGovern 50 today. Quietly Ms McGovern slipped into two major box

stock photo : Elizabeth McGovern and husband arriving for the European

'Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern Supports Husband Simon Curtis At British

Weeks after announcing her separation from husband Ryan Reynolds,

Recently, Jewel announced she and husband Ty Murray are expecting their

STAGE STRUCK: Although Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Lady Grantham, right,

Elizabeth McGovern enjoys one of the rare enduring Hollywood marriages.

Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham from the television program "Downton

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year:  The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.  ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Elizabeth McGovern as Cora in 'Downton Abbey'

Elizabeth McGovern's

Elizabeth McGovern (Pic: BBC). YOU wouldn't catch the oh-so-genteel Countess

Romola Garai in "The Hour" and Elizabeth McGovern in Downton Abbey."

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Elizabeth McGovern moved

Downton Abbey cast - Cora, Countess of Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern)

No regrets: Elizabeth McGovern left Hollywood to live in London with her

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope