41.   My mother gave me my start with iron skillets, presenting me with one of hers the night I told her I was to be married.

42.   My mother gave it to us.

43.   My mother gave me a jolly little smile and went off for a nap.

44.   My mother gave me great advice.

45.   My mother gave me birthday parties, took me to the park, went on class trips with me.

46.   No one would hire him so he spent his time taking pictures, a passion he had pursued since high school when his mother gave him a camera.

47.   No mother could have given them the unqualified support that she did.

48.   Readers with demanding mothers may take comfort in learning that Colin Powell had to make Brigadier General before his mother would give him credit for achieving anything.

49.   She said her mother gave four instructions for the funeral.

50.   Slave mothers usually gave their children something personal, such as a quilt or a hat.