First, I'd like to thank my mother for having given birth to me.

"Just remember to enjoy your day and to thank your mother."

"I cannot thank you and your mother enough for taking care of me."

Thanks were no more offered than a baby would thank its mother for care, or a mother expect it.

"I must go to thank your mother," she said, and together they went back to the drawing-room.

He thanked his mother, whose memory had led him to abandon thoughts of the end.

He did, however, close by thanking his mother, wife and sons.

I stand beside that tree and thank my mother for her being, this house, these rituals.

I suppose you could thank my mother for that, not me.

He added, "I want to thank my mother for being by my side every day."