Childhood and Youth
From a very young age, Asen Yordanov was interested in flight. He built kites as a child, and as an adolescent attended lectures on physics at the local university. In his teens, Yordanov invented a dark box, a simple substitution to the use of an entire dark room in photograph development. Later, his father would take Yordanov to Italy, Switzerland and France, where Yordanov learned of the many innovations in transportation, notably the motorcycle. Asen was temporarily lodged in a boarding school in Geneva, where he learned French. He continued his studies in Bulgaria.
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Famous quotes containing the words childhood and youth, childhood and/or youth:
“Childhood and youth are vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 11:10.
“Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.”
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“Oh high is the price of parenthood,
And daughters may cost you double.
You dare not forget, as you thought you could,
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