But he never told his mother he was working a half mile under the Earth's surface.
On the other hand he said he idolised his mother, who he described as placid, and said she did not criticise him.
He was reunited with a mother he had not seen for more than 15 years when he returned in the early 1990s.
Not only did he recognize his mother, but he also recognized the voices of people who had spoken to him only when he was apparently vegetative.
He has his mother to thank for ensuring that he mastered the local Kikuyu language, which helps him to connect with his countrymen in rural areas.
In an interview with police officers, prosecutors allege, he said his mother had been an Air France employee and he had falsified her ID card by adding his name, photo and status as a crew member.
He married my mother in 1944 and was still married to her when he died in 1994.
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Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1968, he had been abandoned by his mother when he was a baby.
Today, both he and his mother will tell you there's one main reason he's still alive: Andrew Pogany.
He witnessed his mother being mistreated by whites in the South, but he never saw her give up.
He was raised by a single mother that he watched struggle to pay the bills, to get her education.
Seeing the respect he had for his mother, how proud he was that she put herself through school while still struggling to support he and his sister as a single mom.
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And I also loved that he was so devoted to his own family, especially the women in his life. (Applause.) I saw -- and it was important for me to see the respect he had for his mother, how proud he was that she put herself through school while still supporting him and his sister as a single mom.
The appeals judges did throw out one part of Marshall's conviction, a grand larceny count involving work he had his mother's social secretary do for a theater production company he was running.
They said that before he died Mr Todd had described himself as "anxious" about work, but that he had rejected a suggestion from his mother that he was depressed.
He said he had told the girl's mother about his feelings for her but he said he "effectively committed suicide" as the mother recorded their phone conversation and then passed it on to the head teacher.
He doesn't want to tell his mother what he saw and did in Iraq.
He has a German father, a Slovenia mother, he was born in Warsaw and he has a Hebrew name.
R??ter says that from the day he started Conergy with a loan from his mother, he always used the best solar technology available and engineered his own hardware for mounting panels and connecting them to the grid.
"He didn't know my mother and I found it disrespectful to talk about someone else's mother, " he said.
Although his family wasn't told whether he got the therapy or a placebo, his mother believes he got the drug based on his improvement.
He had the portrait taken to send to his mother while he was stationed at an Army post in California, according to his official biography.
Kim now serves traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean food, including dishes he learned from his mother growing up in Hawaii and sushi he perfected while training with Iron Chef Makota Okuwa.
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So when it came time for Obama to leave home he reversed what his mother and father and grandparents had done: he turned around and moved east.
He claimed that his mother had died in a car accident when he was 12 years old, but he didn't remember the details of the accident, authorities said.
The big problem, of course, is that Kobe says he never gave the items to his mother and that he certainly never authorized the auction.
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The doctors were encouraged that, when he spoke about his mother, his expressionless mask slipped slightly, and he looked as if he was struggling not to cry.
He took his mother's maiden name Gore and used it as his first name.
He and his mother make a commercial for the conservative religious group, Focus on the Family.
Stopping here, he asked my mother for a glass of water and gulped it down.
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