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.

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

In March 2009 a Fulton County, Ga., State Court jury awarded $ 2. 3 million in damages to a 4-year-old boy and his mother for a botched circumcision in which too much tissue was removed causing permanent disfigurement.

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

" Alma says she will never return, telling Karen that her fiancé was an Army Air Corps pilot killed in a B-17 during the attack, " he was awarded the Silver Star, they sent it to his mother.

Anna Edwards's father died before she was born, and her mother married an Irish soldier, Corporal Patrick Donohoe of the Engineers, who was later awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Bombay during the Indian Mutiny.

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

Custody may not be awarded to a person other than the father or mother, except under unusual circumstances which require a hearing.

Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

Adrienne and Stephen divorced four years later, with Stephen being awarded full custody of the two surviving children, and, subsequently, Stephen's second wife, Christina McCall, adopted the two girls, who eventually became estranged from their mother for several decades.

His mother, Lady Nok-iang ( Thai: นกเอ ี้ ยง ), was Thai ( and was later awarded the feudal title of Somdet Krom Phra Phithak Thephamat ).

In 1996, Field was awarded with the Berlinale Camera award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for her role as a grieving vigilante mother in Eye for an Eye for director John Schlesinger.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983 ( which was awarded to her co-star, Shirley MacLaine, who played her mother in the film ) and for Shadowlands in 1993 for which she also received her second BAFTA nomination.

A pension was awarded to his mother and three sisters not long after his death, and his brother William André was made a baronet in his honour in 1781 ( see André baronets ).

His mother, Josephine de Gersdorff ( 1896 – 1975 ), was awarded the Legion of Honor for helping keep children safe from Nazi Germany and France during World War II.

* registration of a child born outside Canada to a Canadian " responsible parent " ( being the father, if the child was born in wedlock, or the mother, if the child was born out of wedlock and was residing with the mother, if the father was deceased or if custody of the child had been awarded to the mother by court order )

In The Lonely Silver Rain he visits a bank safe-deposit box in which he keeps a few precious keepsakes including photos of his father, mother, and brother, and mentions that the box also contains his Silver Star, Purple Heart, and honorable discharge certificate, all awarded by the U. S. Army to " Sergeant McGee ".

Despite having sworn loyalty to Henry VIII, Hepburn was awarded an annual pension of £ 1, 000 from Mary of Guise ( Mary, Queen of Scots ' mother ) in return for his patriotic fidelity.

His posthumously awarded Victoria Cross was donated by his mother to Framlingham College in England.

On December 11, 1998, a jury awarded Hunter's mother, Margie, $ 2. 9 million after finding the District of Columbia, through its employees in the D. C. Fire Department and doctors at D. C. General, liable under the D. C. Human Rights Act and for negligence and medical malpractice for causing Tyra's death.

While $ 600, 000 of the amount was awarded for damages attributable to violations of the D. C. Human Rights Act associated with the withdrawal of medical care at the accident scene and openly denigrating Tyra with epithets, a further $ 1. 5 million was awarded to her mother for Tyra's conscious pain and suffering and for economic loss from the wrongful death medical malpractice claim.

She was awarded the Karnataka State Award posthumously, which was received by her mother.