Watson told me that his brother always sent roses to his mother, blossoms bought with Vic's allowance to him.

and they had told their mother about the tumbles.

My lawyer told me that his mother used a similar remedy for cuts and wounds ; ;

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

His mother then told him the identity of his father and that he should take the weapons back to him at Athens and be acknowledged.

In 1993, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom was a TV movie which told the true story of Wanda Holloway, the Texas mother whose obsession with her daughter's cheerleading career made headline news.

Christine told the expert, Paul Atterbury, that she believed, as her mother had done, that the fairies in the fifth photograph were genuine.

His mother, anguished, provided him with what he asked and reputedly told him, " Here, my dear son, do not give me more passion, and leave, and let God help you in your adventure ".

In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same time he told Moore he was starting work on a new book, which would turn out to be Animal Farm.

When the police came to his house, Harold watched as they told his mother that he had died in the fire, and saw her collapse into the policemen's arms.

In 1953, he mortgaged his furniture, generating a bank loan of $ 600, and raised $ 8, 000 from 45 investors — including $ 1, 000 from his mother (" Not because she believed in the venture ," he told E!

Relating this incident to his mother, she told him " Honey, people are stupid "; her advice and this incident taught Marrow to control the way the negativity of others affected him.

When he was younger and the American Revolution was going on, his mother told her children what their father was doing, and what he was risking, and because of this Adams grew to greatly respect his father.

" Not able to speak English, her mother translated as she told a reporter her goal was to be a chess professional.

Before she died, my mother told me to be happy that I was the son of this other man.

Sinatra told Jay Leno on a 1995 Tonight Show that her daughters gave their approval, but her mother said she should ask her father before committing to the project.

Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus.

Aristaeus went to his mother, Cyrene, for help ; she told him that Proteus could tell him how to prevent another such disaster, but would do so only if compelled.

Just after sunrise on the day after the Sabbath three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, come to anoint Jesus ' body, wondering how they can roll the rock away from the tomb ; but they find the rock already rolled aside and a young man in white inside ; he tells them that Jesus is risen, and that they should tell Peter and the disciples that he will meet them in Galilee, " just as he told you.

In 1924, in the Adelaide Sun an article stated " The word ' stole ' may sound a bit far-fetched but by the time we have told the story of the heart-broken Aboriginal mother we are sure the word will not be considered out of place.

He spent a lot of time in prison and, on the day he finally got out, he was told about his mother ’ s search.

Her mother called the management to ask for another chance and they told her they had whittled their choice down to ten women, including Chisholm.

Sojourner recounts how her mother told her to pray to God that she may have good masters and mistresses.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

In another version of this story, Hera, Hephaestus ' mother, had cast him off Olympus ; deeming him ugly and deformed.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).

These names are from the love story of, Qī Xī, in which Niú Láng and his two children, β and γ Aquilae, are separated from their mother, (, ), the star Vega, by the Milky Way.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

The fulfilment of the promise to each patriarch depends on having a male heir, and the story is constantly complicated by the fact that each prospective mother – Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel – is barren.

The story of a Korean War veteran, brainwashed by the Communist Chinese to assassinate a candidate for President, co-starred Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury as Harvey's evil mother.

In addition, a burger bar McWonald's was used as a story setting and displayed a large W in the style of an inverted Golden Arches M. This establishment had spotty-faced teenage staff vomiting and smoking ; a child customer informs his mother that he does not want to finish his burger as it " tastes of pigeon and has cigarette butts in it ".

In Chinese mythology, there is a love story of Qi Xi () in which Niu Lang (, Altair ) and his two children ( β and γ Aquilae ) are separated from their mother Zhi Nü (, lit.

Heinlein later revisited a similar theme in his 1958 story — All You Zombies —, in which the main character's interactions with sex-changed versions of himself / herself at various points in his / her life result in a bizarre version of the ontological paradox in which the character becomes his / her own mother and father.

A 1975 episode involving Danno's aunt, played by MacArthur's adoptive mother Helen Hayes, provided a bit of Williams's back story.

The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to " seek their fortune ".

( As his mother destroyed all the letters he wrote her, Arthur's side of the story is unknown ).

In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in war-torn Italy.

Loren in Kenya while serving as Goodwill Ambassador in 1992In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in Rob Marshall's film version of Nine, based on the Broadway musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film ; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother.