Top 34 Children Have Talent Quotes
#1. I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
Rita Dove
#2. All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.
Wendy Kopp
#3. I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.
Bobbejaan Schoepen
#4. One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.
Michele Bachmann
#5. Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.
Shinichi Suzuki
#6. I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.
Beverly L. Kaye
#7. I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#8. A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.
Henrik Ibsen
#9. Mr. Gibbons had the talent that many puppeteers have of speaking to children as though he believed they were intelligent and could understand a thing or two.
Jesse Ball
#11. My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.
Masiela Lusha
#12. Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
#13. I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.
Jan Brett
#14. Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
#16. His whole life he tried to make things better for poor children, but his real calling was being a father. It was a talent with him. As soon as our girls could sit up, he was wheeling them to the library and taking out books to read them bedtime stories.
Anita Diamant
#17. Me, I don't want any children, I don't want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.
George Michael
#18. Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.
Thomas Boswell
#19. Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.
Polixeni Papapetrou
#20. To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#21. Dweck encourages parents and teachers to praise children for their effort, rather than their intelligence, talent, or looks.
Megan McArdle
#23. I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.
Gretchen Carlson
#24. Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.
Elizabeth Fishel
#26. Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.
Cung Le
#27. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.
Lynne Stewart
#28. Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.
Jim Talent
#29. One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
Rafe Spall
#30. There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.
Margaret Halsey
#33. If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.
Lauren Leto
#34. I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.
Lynne Reid Banks
