“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.” FirstsChildrenTwoMotherSawsExerciseFirst TimeProgramMy FamilyDoctorsWeightMeetingsSizePortionsPeersCounselingBurgersWatchersWeight WatchersPortion Sizes Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.” MayChildrenStatesUseHomeUsedMotherPurposeGroupsRepublicanOffersProgramAbortionAppropriateAgendasFundPregnancyAdoptionRenewalTaxpayersReducingCounselingWedlock Author:Newt Gingrich
“I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.” SchoolMotherGuyFunMorningReadyProgramRadioGet UpHatedDread Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media.” WayWritingBeautifulMotherPassionFatherVoiceMediaProgramMy FamilyPhotographerRadioMagazinesArticlesSubmitClassical MusicAvidMelbourne Author:Olivia Newton-John
“Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.” MenWellsGovernmentEarthMotherPrinciplesProgramHarmonyPursuitSocialismPursuit Of HappinessMother Earth Author:Evo Morales
“And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.” HelpingGovernmentMotherInspiringProgramReformWelfareLabourEightyMothers DayLoneWelfare Reform Author:Patricia Hewitt
“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.” IfsPoliticalMotherArtistLevelsTvsHappeningsProgramWingsDebateMainstreamFrighteningRight WingBiasedPolitical Debates Author:Thom Yorke
“As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment. As a wife, anything that my husband is passionate about and helps to support. As a community member, anything that supports the Vail Valley, the place that I call home. As a friend of the founder and true believer in their mission, an organization called First Descents. They provide adventure camps to young adults and adults with cancer or who have survived cancer.” FirstsChildrenHelpingHomeSchoolYoungMotherCommunitySupportWifeAdventureHusbandMembersAdultsProgramOrganizationYoung AdultPassionateCancerMissionsBelieverMy ChildrenMy HusbandCampsValleysFoundersSurvivedDescentTrue BelieverEnrichment Author:Trista Sutter
“Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolMotherTurnsAnswersSupportCuttingSpecialSpeechProgramPressesDevotionAcademicVeteranConferencesFundingGovernment ProgramsFailure In LifePress ConferencesDeceasedStumpsDraconian Author:Gail Collins
“A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.” GivingShouldChildrenDifferentCountryDreamMotherTurnsParentInterestFantasyOne ThingExampleExpectationsProgramShould HaveIncreaseFulfillmentRejectsRebelAirplane Author:James Hillman
“I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.” ArtMotherFoundStudyProgramRussiaForestsLeningrad Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.” GivingUseMotherLanguageProgramTongue Author:Trevor Noah
“I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.” WorldMeanTwoBeautifulMotherSupportHugeIndustrySixResearchDaughterProgramFoundationCancerEntertainmentEightBreastsFundBreast CancerStrideEntertainment IndustryDenimBeautiful DaughterCancer ResearchMean The World To Me Author:Felicity Huffman