“My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.” DifferentMotherFiguresIceDifferent ThingsSkatingFigure Skating Author:Debi Thomas
“Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.” MotherPresidentNewsIceGlobal WarmingGood NewsPresident BushChunks Author:David Letterman
“Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.” MotherFallThreeNew YorkAdvantageSickDuesAbsenceIceInstantSicknessChocolateCreamCandyIce CreamRiotSauceQuentin Book:Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
“When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.” ChildrenMadeMotherSnowIceKitchenDivinityEggsSugarCreamAssociatesIce CreamLarksFudgeSnowstormsPecans Book:Occasions: Selected Writings Source: Occasions: Selected Writings
“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.” WayHeartLongHardEarthLastsMotherGirlHouseBreakSawsAirFeetSkyFieldsBrokenColdWalkingMoonSpringMouthsDaughterToughStonesBlueMovedWinterIceSatLakesShyFlatsMy DaughterFrozenLong WayBlue SkyMy GirlNew MoonGraniteBare FeetFrozen Lake Author:Carol Ann Duffy
“The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.” MenFirstsPersonsLastsMotherNamesHe ManIceManagersShopsBossCreamIce CreamFirst Person Author:Mona Simpson
“I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.” NeedsWellsMotherColdIndependentIceHog Book:Selected Plays Source: Selected Plays