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.

His father was gifted at drawing as well, wooing Alston's mother with small sketches in the medians of letters he wrote her.

A gifted musician, his mother, Elizabeth Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, was related to the Lauries of Maxwellton ( immortalised in the ballad Annie Laurie ) and connected with the Duke of Atholl and the Royal Stuarts.

There is a letter of recommendation of Raphael, dated October 1504, from the mother of the next Duke of Urbino to the Gonfaloniere of Florence: " The bearer of this will be found to be Raphael, painter of Urbino, who, being greatly gifted in his profession has determined to spend some time in Florence to study.

García Lorca's mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, was a teacher and gifted pianist.

Spohr's first musical encouragement came from his parents: his mother was a gifted singer and pianist, and his father played the flute.

For instance, the alleged witch Margaret Ley from Liverpool claimed, in 1667, that she had been gifted her familiar spirit from her mother when she died, while the Leicestershire cunning-woman Joan Willimot related, in 1618, that a mysterious figure whom she only referred to as her " master ", " willed her to open her mouth and he would blow into her a fairy which should do her good.

His mother was a gifted amateur watercolorist and Homer's first teacher, and she and her son had a close relationship throughout their lives.

Recognizing that Crowe was gifted, his mother pushed him to excel.

Godfrey's mother, Kathryn, was a gifted artist and composer whose aspirations to fame were laid aside to take care of her family after her husband, Arthur or " Darl '", died.

He is an extremely gifted warrior and admired for his very handsome appearance, but has a lifelong fear of his mother Viviane.

Magomayev's father, Mahammad Magomayev, who died two days prior to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II while serving as a soldier in the Soviet Army, was a gifted scenic designer ; and his mother, Aishet Kinzhalova, was an actress.

During June's childhood, her mother used to tell her that she could be anything she wants ; however, she particularly wanted her daughter to be gifted, a child star who amazes the world, like Ginny Tiu ( seen briefly on television ) or June's rival Waverly.

Waverly was once a gifted chess champion, but quit after feeling that her mother was using her daughter's talent to show off, taking credit for Waverly's wins.

His mother Therèse ( von ) Ulmann was a gifted singer of German origin.

He gifted his house for running a nursing home named after his mother, Aghorkamini Devi.

While he was as gifted in public relations as his father had been in engineering, Vladimir proved as extravagant as his mother in spending.

Evie attends a school for gifted children ( run by her mother ) and achieves good grades there.

Described by her husband as " an ambitious working mother with a career ", Donna runs a school for gifted children, which Evie attends.

On 10 December 2004, he gifted his 33. 73 % stake in Lai Sun Internatational equally to Peter and his mother.

Upon the death of her mother in 1914, Mabel Wagnalls Jones established and gifted to Lithopolis and Bloom Township, the Wagnalls Memorial Library.

However, she has issues with being neglected not only due to being the youngest, but also because her mother paid more attention to her sickly middle brother, and her academically gifted oldest brother.

Abramson was raised in Harlem-his father was an elevator operator, and his mother was a food service worker-but he attended a program for gifted students at Stuyvesant High School, before transferring to Cornwall Academy in Connecticut after receiving a scholarship that his sister had seen advertised in the Amsterdam News.

Enjoying the full attention of his mother, JJSS was a highly gifted and hard-working child.

Known for being a gifted student who had a particular proficiency in creative writing, he continued his studies informally with his mother — a schoolteacher.