Quotes About Gifted Kids

#1. A lot of gifted kids are angels who are on this earth with responsibilities to help others.

Linda Kreger Silverman

#2. As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Matisyahu

#3. POPPY (on high school cliques): I wasn't smart enough for the gifted kids or athletic enough for the jocks. I didn't want to s*ck a lot of c*ck, so I couldn't be a cheerleader or popular girl.

Bijou Hunter

#4. Elementary Einsteins: Four Simple Steps to Challenging Gifted Kids in your Classroom,

Betsy Weigle

#5. Mr. Denzi can teach us all something about accumulating wealth. Begin earning and investing early in your adult life. That will enable you to outpace the wealth accumulation levels of even the so-called gifted kids from your high school class. Remember, wealth is blind.

Thomas J. Stanley

#6. The single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#7. I don't get here much. Message me if you really want a response.

Don Carpenter

#8. I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

Ransom Riggs

#9. I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.

Troy Duffy

#10. You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

#11. You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

Donna K. Childree

#12. Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Damien Hirst

#13. Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

Don Cupitt

#14. Did you notice there aren't any average kids anymore - only Gifted and Disposable?

Heather Choate Davis

#15. My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.

Bo Jackson

#16. There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

Lenny Abrahamson

#17. All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

Michael Carr

#18. Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Al Sharpton

#19. The moon rose in silver splendor into an October sky strewn with pale clouds and brilliant stars. The clouds churned, a white-foam sea, and the moon was a vast, graceful clipper ship, its sails full of spectral light as it ran before the strength of the cold autumn winds.

Jim Butcher

#20. Sometimes, I feel like my whole life is lived in this twilight space between sunshine and darkness.

Susan Ee

#21. There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.

Nick Mason

#22. Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

Lisa Graff

#23. Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

Eric Wilson

#24. I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

Ashwin Sanghi

#25. When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted. If their mothers had no morning sickness, only 7 percent of kids did that well.

John Medina