Tom Vilsack Quotes

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Tom Vilsack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

FamilyTodayPastAgingLooking

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

Anita Baker

ParentsImpossibleWriteDyingJust

I'm guessing that ability to withstand peer pressure and adhere to one's values might translate to the kind of backbone necessary for a successful lifelong relationship.

Steven Crowder

RelationshipPressureValuesKind

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Rob Brydon

ThinkGoDoneHopelessFirstTop

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Mike Fitzpatrick

TodayI AmFaceNewsSpecialUnited

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

Jason Isbell

SadTimePurposeSlowRockListen

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

Jon Heder

ChildhoodGunLovedBackToysGone

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

InspirationalWallsUniverseDoors

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

David Sedaris

ListeningGuiltyPleasureBritish

As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.

Cheryl Ladd

StyleMeBetterYouGetYour

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Christine Quinn

TalkingDoneComplainingThings

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

Chris Raschka

TeacherArtsSenseMaintainSciences

I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.

Clint Eastwood

YearLongYouWayOfficeSee

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Tom Vilsack