#up

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #christian #different #different faiths #faiths

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#continued #course #fuel #gasoline #gasoline prices

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 weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #city #grew #i #knew

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#farmers #local #many #markets #out

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#back #because #believe #give #got

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#back #because #believe #give #got

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. ↗

— Tim Vine

#cabinet #chairs #dentist #down #filing

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. ↗

— Tim Vine

#candles #couple #know #now #out