Thomas once confided that the poems which had most influenced him were Mother Goose rhymes which his parents taught him when he was a child:

Mother and child with Harlequin, unknown Flemish painting | Flemish painter, 18th century

Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child — that I awakened each morning with a smile.

File: North carolina algonkin-kleidung03. jpg | Mother and child of the Secotan Indians in North Carolina.

File: North carolina algonkin-kleidung04. jpg | Mother and child of the Secotan Indians in North Carolina.

With a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment.

Mother can often apply to a woman other than the biological parent, especially if she fulfills the main social role in raising the child.

Mother and child union, immediately after birth

Corn is the Mother in the truest sense that people take in the corn and the corn becomes their flesh, as mother milk becomes the flesh of the child.

Because of her role in saving Osiris, Nut was seen as a friend and protector of the dead, who appealed to her as a child appeals to its mother: " O my Mother Nut, stretch Yourself over me, that I may be placed among the imperishable stars which are in You, and that I may not die.

Gertrude in some sense appears to typify a baleful Earth Mother ; ponderous and heavy, loving and cruel by turns, impassive of her own child, tender to her bird and cats, she is " the Countess Gertrude of huge clay ".

Many times it is the ballad that the child learns first, no Mother Goose melodies are as familiar, and it is strange indeed to listen to a little tot singing of the courtly days of old, the knights and ' ladyes ' and probably the tragic death of the lover.

" He further stated " if it wasn't for Mother, who was always there to console me and praise me for my singing, I think I would have been one of those child suicide cases you read about in the papers.

The crowned woman has variously been identified as Pope Joan ( a woman who according to a medieval and later Protestant myth had disguised herself as a man and been elected pope ; some cards also show a child, and the Pope Joan myth pictured her as found out when she gave birth during a papal procession ), as Mary, Mother of God, or even as Cybele, as Isis, or as Venus.

Mother and child washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by the fisherman Dictys (" fishing net "), who raised the boy to manhood.

Mother Coffey was a child convert to COGIC under the preaching of Bishop Mason.

Harold Gilman's Mother and Child, painted in 1918, depicts the traditional bond between a mother and child from early on in life.

St. Justina, a patroness of Padua and Venice, is at the right with the Blessed Virgin Mother and the Christ child in the center.

" As Mother Jones noted that many of the children at union headquarters had missing fingers and other disabilities, she attempted to get newspaper publicity about the conditions in Pennsylvania regarding child labor.

:" It was said that Mother Leeds had 13 children and, after giving birth to her 13th child, stated that if she had another, it would be the Devil.

This identification may have gained credence from the fact that Deborah Leeds ' husband, Japhet Leeds, named twelve children in the will he wrote in 1736, which is compatible with the legend of the Jersey Devil being the thirteenth child born by Mother Leeds.

Mother and child are then placed in a coffin and sent home to Weatherbury for interment.

* Mother and child stone

He further stated to David Ritz, " if it wasn't for Mother, who was always there to console me and praise me for my singing, I think I would have been one of those child suicides you read about in the papers.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

Cyril gained an opportunity to restore Alexandria's pre-eminence over both Antioch and Constantinople when an Antiochine priest who was in Constantinople at Nestorius ' behest began to preach against calling Mary the " Mother of God ".

Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and ( Mother ) Maybelle Carter brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.

At the heart of both festivals were myths concerning Demeter as Mother and Persephone as her daughter.

Outside of Jewish tradition, Lilith was associated with the Mother Goddess, Inanna – later known as both Ishtar and Asherah.

His mother and grandmother became the first women to be allowed into the Senate, and both received senatorial titles: Soaemias the established title of Clarissima, and Maesa the more unorthodox Mater Castrorum et Senatus (" Mother of the army camp and of the Senate ").

In 2002, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred in the chapel alongside him.

After dealing with the Nightsisters, believing both Ventress and Mother Talzin have been killed off by Grevious's forces, Dooku refocuses his attention to whom he fears will become more of a threat due to now being masterless.

A drunk called Da Mayor ( Davis ) is constantly trying to win both the approval and affection of the neighborhood matron, Mother Sister ( Dee ), who watches the neighborhood's activity from her brownstone.

However it was suggested that the reverence for the colors red and white can trace its origin to older common Austronesian mythology of Mother Earth and Father Sky ; both symbolize in colors red ( earth ) and white ( sky ).

Coraline goes to an old well in the woods by her house, luring the Other Mother ’ s hand there with the key, and casts both down the bottomless well.

They called her the Old Mother, who represented both Moon and Earth simultaneously.

The Hopi Mother Nature is symbolized by both Mother Earth and the Corn Mother.

This had a profound effect on the unborn Alia, who was consequently born a full Reverend Mother with the complete Other Memory of both her female and male ancestors.

: And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the Mother of Dindymum, Most Venerable, Dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean Mother, – the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.

Fort Rucker is often referred to as " Mother Rucker ", both as an insulting pseudo-homonym, and in deference to the birth of an Army Aviator's career and his or her constant return to the Post for continued training and responsibility throughout their career.

Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style with his works The Mother and his play The Enemies ( both 1906 ).

Mother Seton Interparochial School ( left ) and Miftaahul Uloom Academy, a Pre-K to 12th grade Islamic school ( right ), are both located on 15th Street.

Followers of Mithraism have proposed, from Persian sources, that Mithra might have been born of the union of Mother Earth and Ahuramazda, and that his story influenced both Christianity and Chinese mythology, where he became known as " The Friend ".

There are two mountain peaks, called Pachatata ( Father Earth ) and Pachamama ( Mother Earth ), and ancient ruins on the top of both peaks.

Following the failed assassination attack against the Admiral de Coligny, which Wanegffelen attributes to the Guise family and Spain, the Italian advisers of Catherine de Medici undoubtedly recommended in the royal Council the execution of about fifty Protestant leaders to benefit from the occasion by eliminating the Huguenot danger, but both the Queen Mother and the King were very firmly opposed.