By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

Amy had to be safe, had to come back to them -- if only to reap that share of life's experiences that were her due, if only to give her parents another chance to do better by her.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

and they censured parents who `` never disciplined and were too permissive '' or who `` never explained how easy it was to get pregnant ''.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone on home without you.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

His parents were working-class Rusyn emigrants from Mikó ( now called Miková ), located in today ’ s northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

His parents were Joseph Chatfield Alcott and Anna Alcott ( née Bronson ).

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

His parents were Abdallah's son Muhammad and Muzna ( or Muzayna ), a Christian concubine.

His parents were Mahmud II and Valide Sultan Pertevniyal (" Partav-Nihal ").

Hoshiar and Ibrahim were the parents of Isma ' il Pasha.

To address the concerns of parents that home computers were a better investment than consoles, the system was designed to be upgraded to a full-fledged home computer.

Prince Harry began to accompany his parents on official visits at an early age ; his first overseas royal tour was with his parents to Italy in 1985.

Harry then accompanied either both parents or his father on subsequent tours, though he only began solo official engagements after his military training and active service.

Harry, Albert, Sam and their Jewish parents emigrated to North America from the part of Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire following the 18th-century partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth near present-day Ostroleka, Poland.

The most prominent Muggle-born in the Harry Potter series is Hermione Granger, who had two muggles of unspecified names as parents.

These include Muggle parents of magical children, such as Hermione Granger's parents, the Muggle Prime Minister ( and his predecessors ), the Dursley family ( Harry Potter's non-magical and only living relatives ), and the non-magical spouses of some witches and wizards.

It describes how Harry discovers he is a wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and with the help of his friends thwarts an attempted comeback by the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents when Harry was one year old.

Some of the story elements in Philosopher's Stone resembled parts of Dahl's stories ; for example, the hero of James and the Giant Peach lost his parents and had to live with a pair of unpleasant aunts — one fat and one thin rather like Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, who treated Harry as a servant.

His parents worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus: his mother, Rae ( née Fisher ), was a bareback rider and his father, Harry, was an advance man.

During World War II, Belle Valley soldier Harry Torhan who was born to Russian immigrant coal mining parents received the Silver Star and Purple Heart for evacuating four wounded soldiers while under mortar and small arms fire during the Battle of the Bulge.

Harry Corbett, famous for his children's television glove puppet character Sooty stage act lived with his parents who owned the former " Springfield Fisheries " fish and chip shop ( now " Midgeley's ") on Springfield Road.

He was one of three children born to parents Irene and Harry Daltrey, and grew up with two sisters, Gillian and Carol.

In the fictional world of the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters constitute a group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, the chief antagonist of the series, who seek to purify the Wizarding community by eliminating the Muggle-borns ( wizards or witches born to non-magical parents ).

* Harry and Bryna Danielovich, the parents of Kirk Douglas emigrated from Gomel, although he was born in Amsterdam, New York

Harry Blackwell's parents accepted Stone warmly into their home, treating her as a daughter.

Harry Crosby was born as Henry Sturgis Crosby ( his parents Stephen Van Rensslaer Crosby and Henrietta Marion Grew later changed his middle name to " Grew ") in Boston's exclusive Back Bay neighborhood.

Dwight Eisenhower lined up with his parents at the 1904 Kansas State Fair to see him, and Harry Truman recalled that as a boy he had written a fan letter to the horse.

* In Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort heard a prophecy ( made by Sybill Trelawney to Dumbledore ) that a boy born at the end of July, whose parents had defied Voldemort thrice and survived, would have the power to defeat Lord Voldemort.

His parents died protecting him, and when Voldemort tried to cast a killing curse on Harry, it rebounded and took away most of his strength, and gave Harry Potter a unique ability and connection with the Dark Lord.

Walston was born Herman Walston in New Orleans, Louisiana ( some sources indicate Laurel, Mississippi ) to working-class parents Mittie ( née Kimball ) and Harry Norman Walston, a lumber man .< ref >

The night before they all head off to Hogwarts, Harry overhears Ron's parents discussing the fact that Sirius Black is after Harry.