Top 41 Quotes About Prodigies
#1. Paul had always wanted to be a prodigy. But what no one ever told him was that prodigies don't feel like prodigies; they feel old. They feel like has-beens just at the moment that they're said to be blossoming.
Graham Moore
#2. Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.
Barbara Lourie Sand
#3. Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
Orson Welles
#4. The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses.
John Green
#6. There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
John Green
#7. The knowledge that [he] had passed a loveless, institutionalized childhood and had escaped from his origins by prodigies of pure intellect, at the cost of all other human qualities, helped one to understand him - but not to like him.
Arthur C. Clarke
#8. If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
H.L. Mencken
#9. Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!
William Shakespeare
#10. It is one thing to get all the notes right; any number of unsocialized conservatory prodigies can do that. It is another thing to play the thoughts within the notes, the light around them, the darkness behind them, the silence at the end of the phrase. That is what inspires awe.
Alex Ross
#11. Prodigies! Geniuses! Artists! The lumer-lumpen are some of the most sensitive, the most brilliant, the wisest creatures on the earth or inside of it. There is more wisdom in the head of a lumpen than you will find in all the libraries of the world ... If only they could speak ...
Lauren Oliver
#12. Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#13. Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine.
Peter S. Beagle
#14. Kinsley Grace Bryant, you crazy beautiful loon, marry me so we can make hundreds of little soccer prodigies.
R.S. Grey
#15. New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.
Donald Hall
#16. Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
Ethel Mumford
#17. THE PEERLESS PRODIGIES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND GREAT PRESENTATION OF MARVELOUS LIVING HUMAN CURIOSITIES
Frederick Drimmer
#18. I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies
David Mitchell
#19. When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But then I noticed all their friends were like them, so that was a bad theory.
Don Tapscott
#20. SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.
Virginia Woolf
#22. 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
#23. Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#24. The Royal Tenenbaums," she said. "It's about a family of prodigies.
John Green
#25. 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
#26. In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
Samuel Johnson
#27. Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
David Hume
#28. It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
Michel Ney
#30. Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.
Jamie Murphy
#31. I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
John Buchan
#32. He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Robert Moses
#33. The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.
John Baird
#34. You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
Franz Liszt
#35. Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.
James Morcan
#36. I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
Michel Martin
#38. I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
Fred Astaire
#40. 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
#41. Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Jonathan Swift
