Tyske Skaphengere Quotes & Sayings

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have — Edvard Munch

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home. — Gil Scott-Heron

But even the coldest hate can shift into something warmer if given enough time, just as an ugly caterpillar can turn into a beautiful butterfly. — Morgan Rhodes

When he was about fourteen years of age, Leonardo would have left the fondaco and most likely traveled with an older merchant, a form of apprenticeship system common in those days. Around that time his father summoned him to Bugia. No one knows exactly when he made this voyage. In the introduction to Liber abbaci, he later wrote: "When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting. — Keith J. Devlin