shirley temple grown up

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor



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!)



One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640




One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640




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




Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby



One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

Shirley Temple all grown up, 1945

Shirley Temple (Black) - All Grown Up!

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Have A Very Merry Birthday Shirley Temple!

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown

An interesting sidelight to Shirley Temple's

Even though Shirley Temple Black is more than 20 years older than I am,

kids were doing as 2004 came to a close—watching a Shirley Temple movie!

Shirley Temple. Probably not drinking beer.

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I grew up on Shirley Temple movies. When I was little, on the rare nights

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was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple.

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw

New Year's Champagne Cocktail: The Shirley Temple, All Grown Up

I mean, it was pretty effective, I've grown up to think of Hollywood as my

Allyson might look like Shirley Temple, but her dream is to grown up and

of a grown up Shirley from 1948 wearing a lovely blonde wig and 18th

grown-up version of the Shirley Temple hair we all secretly desired.

Shirley Temple 1942 ”Grown Up in Miss Annie Rooney” Photo by George Hurrell

Shirley Temple all grown up, 1945

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote