Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.

I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid.

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

One of my earliest memories was throwing a tantrum because I wasn't allowed to put together the coffee percolator.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!