Top 17 Quotes About Precocity
#1. For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Margaret Fuller
#2. Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.
Nancy Mitford
#3. Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan.
Mary Jo Putney
#4. Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.
Catharine Beecher
#5. It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
Evelyn Waugh
#6. It was the only field, so far, in which the Pearl of Fortune had shown any precocity, other than the feat of keeping her head, her reason and her sense of the ridiculous amid conditions of civilized lunacy.
Dorothy Dunnett
#7. Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.
Tom McNeal
#8. Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#9. To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
Pliny The Elder
#10. I know it's not good for a girl to be without a father these days. But is it any better for a father to be without a daughter?
Gavriel Savit
#12. It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen
#15. Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
Pablo Picasso
#16. I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually
Kanye West
#17. I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.
Tim Costello