Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks ( February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005 ) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U. S. Congress called " the first lady of civil rights ", and " the mother of the freedom movement ".

Later that year, at the urging of her brother and sister-in-law in Detroit, Michigan, Sylvester and Daisy McCauley, Rosa and Raymond Parks, and her mother moved north to join them.

His father, Luigi Berlusconi ( 1908 – 1989 ) was a bank employee and his mother, Rosa Bossi ( 1911 – 2008 ), a housewife.

* Rosa Parks, " mother of the civil rights movement "

Yitzhak's mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in Mohilev in Belarus.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks ( the " mother of the Civil Rights Movement ") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger.

She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several characters: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for battered prostitutes and is pregnant by Lola ; Rosa's mother ; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired ; and the drug-addicted Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover.

His father was Joaquín Balaguer Lespier, a Puerto Rican of Catalan ancestry, and his mother was Carmen Celia Ricardo, daughter of Manuel de Jesus Ricardo and Rosa Amelia Heureaux.

Her mother Sophie ( née Marquis ) who died when Rosa Bonheur was only eleven, had been a piano teacher.

The name was changed in 1890 to Santa Rosa ( Spanish for " Holy Rose ") referring to a chapel that Don Celso Baca ( the founder of the city ) built and named after both his mother Rosa and Saint Rose of Lima.

Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian father Wolf Albach-Retty and her German mother Magda Schneider.

* Cheryl Hines, who played the mother of Ashley Berman, a girl who was abused by her nanny, Maria Rosa Hernandez, who is still on the run.

Francisco Obregón died in 1880, the year of Álvaro Obregón's birth, leaving Álvaro to be raised in poverty by his mother and his older sisters Cenobia, María, and Rosa.

The left one commemorates the philosopher's mother Rosa Jonas, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942

One of six children, he has a younger sister, Sonia Rosa ( born December 1952 ), and his mother, brothers, and sisters live in Costa Rica.

His mother, Rosa Christiana Fladt, was born in Baden, Germany.

He commenced at Santa Rosa High School, where his mother taught English and Spanish, rapidly advancing through three years in just one.

Back at his office in London, Mr. Grewgious gives Edwin a ring which Rosa's father had given to her mother, with the proviso that Edwin must either give the ring to Rosa as a sign of his irrevocable commitment to her or return it to Mr. Grewgious.

His mother, Maria Ramona Carrillo de Pacheco, was a sister-in-law of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and a daughter of Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo, the grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa.

His mother, Rosa, was a hospital worker, and his stepfather, Benjamin Cardona, was a TV repairman.

Around this time Charlie met his future wife, María Rosa Yorio, a singer who became the mother of his first son, Miguel García.

On the night before the funeral, Rosa ventures out on a groyne, seemingly to be closer to her dead maternal friend, but falls into the water and drowns, while her mother is committing adultery with Lacey in a beach hut not far away.

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

My mother was deeply religious.

It was mother who planted the verbenas.

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.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His mother was nudging him, but he was still falling.