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.

Bowman contacts his former girl friend, Betty Fernandez, appearing on her television screen by manipulating the tube, and in a more physical way to his elderly mother, who lies dying.

In 2001, SFU awarded an honorary degree to Betty Fox, mother of Terry Fox and Honorary Chair of the Terry Fox Foundation.

His father was a rabbi, Samuel Levi Josaphat, his mother was Betty Sanders.

* Betty McGuire as Kate Malone ( 1989 – 1991 ); Maggie's mother.

Fox's mother, Betty Fox, was one of eight people to carry the Olympic Flag into BC Place Stadium at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Her single-parent mother ( Betty Field ) is hoping Madge will marry Alan, which would thus raise both Madge and herself into the town's highest, respectable social circles.

Her mother, Mary Elizabeth " Betty " ( née Reese ), is from Harriman, Tennessee, has a Ph. D. in pediatric nursing, and works as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University.

Heine's mother, " Betty "

His mother Peira ( known as " Betty "), née van Geldern ( 1771 – 1859 ), was the daughter of a physician.

According to Hann's family legend, passed from Betty to Val's mother and then on to Val herself, Mitford had checked into the hospital after her return to England where she had given birth to Hitler's child, who was subsequently given up for adoption.

In the early 1980s, Betty Comden appeared as an actress in Wendy Wasserstein's non-musical play Isn't It Romantic, portraying the heroine's mother.

Born in Chiswick, London into a musical family ( his father Cliff Townshend was a professional saxophonist in The Squadronaires and his mother Betty ( née Dennis ) was a singer ), Townshend exhibited a fascination with music at an early age.

In 2003, he released Second Face, followed by the 2007 album Coming Home And also the 2009 album ' Stronger: Remember Betty ' which is in memory of his late mother and all proceeds are being donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Other parents include Chas Finster, Chuckie's stereotypically-nerdy, mild-mannered father ; a widower who later remarries with Kira, Chuckie's sweet-natured, kind, and understanding stepmother in Rugrats in Paris, Drew Pickles, Angelica's indulgent, doting father who pampers his daughter to a ridiculous degree, Charlotte Pickles, Angelica's working mother who overindulges her daughter equally and possesses the character hallmark of arguing on her cellular phone with an employee of hers, Jonathan ; Betty DeVille, Phil and Lil's kind but masculinely-natured mother and Howard DeVille, the twins ' mild-mannered, soft-spoken father.

The fraternal twins, Phil and Lil ( as well as their mother, Betty ) were voiced by Kath Soucie ; Dil Pickles ( and Timmy McNulty ) were voiced by Tara Strong.

His mother was the editor and translator Betty Radice.

In a story titled " Guardian Devil ," Archie and Betty meet a runaway child whose hospitalized mother left the boy in her brother's care, but the brother locked the kid in his room and had wild parties in the house — until Archie brought Moose over to straighten things out ; after briefly manhandling the brother, the intimidating Moose sent the partygoers running with a simple " Scat!

In 2010, Driver appeared in Conviction, a film depicting the real-life story of Betty Ann Waters ( Hilary Swank ), a single mother who spends a decade pursuing a law degree so she can represent her wrongfully convicted brother ( played by Sam Rockwell ) at court.

Through his mother, Anne Foote Wright, he was a direct descendant of Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington Lewis, a sister of George Washington.

Bell's mother Betty ( née McCrickett ) was a prostitute who was often absent from the family home, travelling to Glasgow to work.

Lisa Fredenksen Bohannon in Woman ’ s work: The story of Betty Friedan goes deep into Friedan ’ s personal life and writes about her relationship with her mother.

His Jewish-Hungarian father Samuel Neutra ( 1844 – 1920 ) was a proprietor of a metal foundry, and his mother, Elizabeth " Betty " Glaser Neutra ( 1851 – 1905 ) was a member of the IKG Wien.

Blake was born in Yonkers, New York to an African American father Thomas Reynolds Blake and a British mother Betty.

His mother Betty Miller ( née Spiro ) was a novelist and biographer.