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.

Widow of World War II veteran Leo, mother of Robert and Arthur, sister to Lorna and grandmother to Damien and Teonie.

On the sea journey home from Egypt he met Lorna Moncrieff Patterson, who was 16 years old and travelling with her mother.

According to Lorna Jowett, Joyce is rare among the characters on the series: " Joyce is always and only Buffy's mother, never just another person or a member of the team.

He also wrote a biography of his birth mother, screenwriter Lorna Moon entitled My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon.

; Dr. Lorna: Riff's biological mother ; a radio personality who once employed Gwynn and Zoë, similar to Dr. Laura Schlesinger ( however, she appears notably younger — Zoë notes that she must have given birth to Riff at a relatively young age ).

An only child, Mills was taught to play the harmonica by his mother, Lorna.

* Queen Lorna — King Arthus ' mother and rightful regent of the Kingdom.

In 1998, Richard de Mille, who had grown up in Cecil's household, revealed in the memoir My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon that William C. deMille was his father and screenwriter Moon his biological mother.

* Jean Charest, born of an Irish-Canadian mother, is Premier of Quebec, Canada.

Henri's father, Jean, succeeded his mother, Charlotte, on 12 November 1964.

His mother, Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at the age of 90.

Of the many instances of racing drivers assuming false names, two more are Louis Krages, who raced under the name " John Winter " to keep his mother from finding out about his " habit ", and former F1 driver Jean Alesi.

After some years of weak government by Louis's favorites, the King made Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, a former protégé of his mother, the chief minister of France in 1624.

The heir to the grand duke of Luxembourg may be titled prince-lieutenant (' prince deputy ') during a period in which the incumbent remains formally on the grand ducal throne, but ( progressively, most ) functions of the crown are performed by the ' monarch apprentice ', as prince Jean ( still alive ) did 4 May 1961-12 November 1964 in the last years of his mother Charlotte's reign ( she lived until 1985 ), and Jean's own son prince Henri 3 March 1998-7 October 2000 until his father abdicated and he succeeded.

In approximately 1784, his mother married Pedro Aubry, a New Orleans merchant ; and kept Jean with her.

Jean Eugene's mother, the former Marie-Catherine Guillon, died when Jean was just a young child.

In the first serial, “ The Wrong End of Time ”, Simon, whose mother has died recently, has been taken on holiday by the Skinner family – father Frank ( Derek Benfield ), mother Jean ( Iris Russell ) and daughter Liz – to the village of St Oswald.

His stepfather was the writer Jean Giraudoux, who was married to Pineau's mother.

It was rumored in France that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bartholdi's mother ; and the body after his wife, Jean Emilie.

* Mrs. Stella Spacely, Cosmo Spacely's wife and Arthur Spacely's mother — Jean Vander Pyl

His mother, Erma Jean ( née Christian ), was a social worker, administrator, and educator.

* Jean Mary Hardcastle ( née Pargetter ) ( Judi Dench ) — Judith's mother, Penny & Stephen's sister-in-law, Lionel's wife, Rocky's daughter-in-law, Madge's stepdaughter-in-law, and Alistair's mother-in-law,

Jean Ping the Deputy Prime Minister of Gabon who has a Chinese people | Chinese father and a black Gabonese mother was elected as Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union on 1 February 2008.

Jean Ping, the son of a Chinese trader and a black Gabonese mother, became the Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Foreign minister of Gabon and is currently the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union in 2009.

His father, Jean, worked as an organist in several churches around Dijon, and his mother, Claudine Demartinécourt, was the daughter of a notary.

His father, Jean George Cuvier, was a lieutenant in the Swiss Guards and a bourgeois of the town of Montbéliard ; his mother was Anne Clémence Chatel.

At the time MacColl, who was twenty years older than Peggy, was still married to his second wife, the dancer Jean Newlove ( b. 1923 ), the mother of two of his children, Hamish ( b. 1950 ) and Kirsty ( 1959 – 2000 ).

His father, Jimmie Lee " Big Jim " Vaughan, was an asbestos worker whose job often forced the family to move to different cities, while his mother, Martha Jean Vaughan, worked as a secretary.

Soon after his birth his father Jean Francois Garnier, a naval surgeon, died, and his mother married Simon Pagès, a college professor, by whom she had a son.

His father Jean Ravaillac was a violent man whose many misdeeds were a public scandal and caused legal difficulties ; his mother Françoise Dubreuil ( sister of the canons ) was known for her Catholic piety.

* Pebbles as a baby was voiced by Jean Vander Pyl who also played her mother.