Quotes About Child Prodigies

#1. A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the normal youngster's propensity for play rather than study, would grow up to be a teacher anyway?

Steve Brody

#2. Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. The music world is where child prodigies go to die.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

Jamie Murphy

#5. The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses.

John Green

#6. I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies

David Mitchell

#7. You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Franz Liszt

#8. Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.

Rick Riordan

#9. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? (Sky is Over)

Serj Tankian

#10. Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Aeschylus

#11. I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

Allison Williams

#12. Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth - the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?

Sarah Grimm

#13. At the age of 21, I had never even stepped on a treadmill.

Nikki Reed

#14. Learning to have the confidence to grab the opportunity when it presents itself makes you a winner.

Sharon Law Tucker

#15. I absolutely loathe and hate the work ... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what an honour that is. Nowhere else could a fat 47-year-old speak to people as young as this. They'd think you were a paedophile.

Louise Wilson

#16. I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

Francine Pascal

#17. Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

Meagan Good

#18. Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Elbert Hubbard

#19. Anger is needed to leave, to walk. That doesn't come from outside. In the hollow of the belly the pain of being here, the impossibility of remaining where you are, of being buried alive, of simply staying.

Frederic Gros

#20. Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

Coventry Patmore

#21. I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#22. If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

Brian Eno

#23. Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

Michala Petri