Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts / And eloquence.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Where yet was ever found a mother, / Who'd give her booby for another?

Mrs. Neel is in the unfortunate position of being the mother of the victim and the mother of the defendant, ... It was a factor. It was her wish that he not serve a life sentence.

I hung out at Uncle Phil's Club Madrid nightspot where my mother was a waitress and my grandmother sold hot dogs and sauerkraut. I got to go backstage at the Jamboree and watch the show and then visit with musicians who stopped by the club later.

My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of a very large species.