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.

Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, " the mother she never knew ".

Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).

He was the youngest of four children from Reggie's mother, Clara, who was of Hispanic descent.

* Clara Copperfield – David's kind mother, described as being innocently childish, who dies while David is at Salem House.

* Clara Peggotty – The faithful servant of the Copperfield family and a lifelong companion to David ( she is called by her surname Pegotty in David's family, as her given name is Clara, the same as David's mother ; she is also referred to at times as Barkis after her marriage to Mr. Barkis ).

His mother, Clara Samaniego, was a native from Guararé, Panama and his father, Margarito Durán Sanchez, was from Arizona, United States and of Mexican American heritage.

* Jessie Royce Landis as Thornhill's mother Clara

His mother was Clara Nell Strange McNamara.

The Benitez troop was largely directed by their mother, Clara Benítez.

Her father, an aeronautical engineer, emigrated from La Paz, Bolivia at age 17 ; her mother was American, the daughter of architect Emery Stanford Hall and wife Clara Louise Adams.

Charles ensured his domination and throne by having his mother confined for the rest of her life in the rooms of the Convent of Santa Clara in Tordesillas, Castile.

De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfred Benítez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benítez.

His father George Herriman, Jr., who was 30 at the time, and his mother, Clara Morel Herriman, who was 25, were mulattoes, and their son was listed as " colored " on his birth certificate.

Christie's mother, Clarissa (" Clara ") Boehmer Miller ( 1854 – 1926 ), was a strong influence on her life and someone to whom Christie was extremely close, especially after the death of her father in 1901.

After studying with his mother, Clara Romero, at the Havana Municipal Conservatory, Isaac Nicola ( 1916 – 1997 ) continued his training in Paris with Emilio Pujol, a disciple of Francisco Tárrega.

Arthur Porges's mother was Clara Kurzin, who died when he was nine years old.

Born in New London, Connecticut, he grew up in Enfield, Massachusetts, where he lived with his mother Mary and sister Clara.

His mother, Clara ( née Hartley ), was of Protestant Irish ancestry, and his father, Reuben Cohen, was a Russian Jewish immigrant ; the two owned the Bangor Rye Bread Co.

* Letters of Field-Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke to his mother and his brothers: Translated by Clara Bell and Henry W. Fischer ( 1891 )

His mother, Clara P. ( Ackley ), was Kentucky-born and of Swiss heritage.

Known as Richard Horatio Edgar Freeman, Polly's young son had a happy childhood, forming a close bond with 20-year-old Clara Freeman who became like a second mother to him.

She recently came back with little but very intense roles under the direction of Turkish-born director Ferzan Özpetek, acting as Antonia's mother in Le fate ignoranti ( 2001 ), and as the sensitive, alcohol-addicted Maria Clara in Cuore Sacro ( 2005 ).

His mother, Clara, was a leader of the New Zealand women's suffrage movement.