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.

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to a Welsh father, Brinley (" Bryn ") Newton-John, and a Berlin-born mother, Irene Helene ( Born ), the eldest child of the Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist Max Born.

In 1853, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, the domineering mother of 23-year-old Emperor Francis Joseph, preferring to have a niece as a daughter-in-law rather than a stranger, arranged a marriage between her son and her sister Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helene.

He did not propose to Helene, but defied his mother and informed her that if he could not have Elisabeth, he would not marry at all.

The estates of Hungary elected Vladislaus III of Poland as King Vladislaus I in succession to Albert II ; but the infant Ladislaus's mother had the Holy Crown of Hungary stolen from its guardians at Visegrád and brought to Wiener Neustadt by a lady of the court, Helene Kottannerin.

Her mother was Elaine Smith, a former showgirl, actress and writer of erotic novels, who used the stage names Helene Thornton and Heller Toren.

His mother, Helene Stanton ( née Eleanor Mae Stansbury ; born 1925 ), is a retired singer and actress who came from a " highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia ".

Evans was born in Lakeland, Florida to an African-American mother, Helene Evans, a professional singer.

The name of David's mother, Helene, is recorded in a margin note in the Gospel of Matthew from the Tsqarostavi monastery ; she is otherwise unknown.

His mother — Olga Helene Fransziska Freifrau von Falkenhayn von Bock — was of both German and Russian aristocratic heritage.

Gottfried Münzenberg was born into a family of Protestant ministers ( father Pastor Heinz and mother Helene Münzenberg ).

Her mother, Helene, is a therapist, and her father, Stuart Mentzel, worked as a pajama salesman.

His multicultural group of friends consisted of Nestor Best ( Ardon Bess ), Max ( John J. Dee ), and Tony " Duke " Zarro ( Bob Vinci ), who hung around regularly to the perennial disapproval of King's mother Gladys ( Helene Winston ).

Nikolai Karamzin was the first to speculate that Vsevolod's mother Helene was a Greek princess, for after her husband's death she took Vsevolod with her to Constantinople.

In 1891, Marianne began to spend time with the Charlottenburg Webers, Max, Jr. and his mother Helene in particular.

Although there was some effort during the days after the abdication of his grandfather in 1848 to put him on the throne under the name of Louis-Philippe II, with his mother ( Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ) as Regent, this came to nothing.

Nel is uncertain of the conventional life her mother, Helene, wants for her ; these doubts are hammered home when she meets Rochelle, her grandmother and a former prostitute, the only unconventional woman in her family line.

* Helene Wright: Nel's strait-laced and clean mother.

Gotthold Eisenstein's father was Johan Konstantin Eisenstein and his mother was Helene Pollack.

Karl August's only surviving daughter, Karoline Luise, married Frederick Ludwig, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and was the mother of Helene ( b. 1814-d. 1858 ), wife of Ferdinand, Duke of Orleans, eldest son of French King Louis Philippe.

Their mother, Helene Monsen Søndervåg ( 1869 – 1902 ), died when Reksten was only four years old.

She was the mother of three daughters: Marion Fortestcue who married Daulton Gillespie Viskniskki in 1934, Thalia Fortescue Massie ( 1911 – 1963 ), and Kenyon Forestcue Reynolds ( 1914 – 1990 ), better known as actress Helene Whitney.

* The Sixth Sense ( ABC ) ( 1972 ) as Helene, a piano instructor, and mother of a psychic, who attempts murder

In his 1931 article on " Female Sexuality ", Freud wrote approvingly of ' Helene Deutsch's latest paper, on feminine masochism and its relation to frigidity ( 1930 ), in which she also recognises the girl's phallic activity and the intensity of her attachment to her mother '.

When their mother died in 1907, Spring and Helene Byington were legally adopted by their aunt Margaret Eddy.