Logo
Quote by Tom Vilsack
Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I gr

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there werent the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. – Tom Vilsack

Other quotes by Tom Vilsack

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. – Tom Vilsack

Category:
Food
Author
Tom Vilsack
Read Quote

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated. – Tom Vilsack

Category:
Technology
Author
Tom Vilsack
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Food
category

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. Its like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. – Meghan ORourke

Category:
Food

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive. – Sandra Lee

Category:
Food

I havent eaten at a McDonalds since I became President. – William J. Clinton

Category:
Food

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If youre using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, Whats up. – Jennifer Hudson

Category:
Food

Random Quotes

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will

Category:
Committees

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius

Category:
Self-Respect

Suffering is nothing. Its all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. – Alphonse Daudet

Category:
Suffering

A tragedy need not have blood and death its enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. – Jean Racine

Category:
Death