Child Prodigy Quotes & Sayings

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness — Andrei Tarkovsky

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. — Will Rogers

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. — Kim Weston

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Huge, megalithic corporation seeks a talented, ambitious prodigy to join our exciting dynamic Prodigy Division for summer job. Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages. Job duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi.33 — John Green

He was continually surprised at the speed and accuracy of her creepiness. She was like some creepiness child prodigy — Christopher Moore

Nicky, the van's on fire!'
'Fuck the van, Willy! We got ourselves a prodigy child! — Jonathan Dunne

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind. — Michael Eric Dyson

Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do."
"Prodigy," I corrected. — Barbara Kingsolver

My parents have always worried that I'd take Amy too personally - they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I can't fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: When I finally quit violin at age twelve, Amy was revealed as a prodigy in the next book. ("Sheesh, violin can be hard work, but handwork is the only way to get better!") When I blew off the junior championship at age sixteen to do a beach weekend with friends, Amy recommitted to the game. ("Sheesh, I know it's fun to spend time with friends, but I'd be letting myself and everyone else down if I didn't show up for the tournament.") This used to drive me mad, but after I wend off to Harvard (and Amy correct those my parents' alma mater), I decided it was all too ridiculous to think about. That my parents, two child psychologists, chose this particular public form of passive-aggressiveness toward their child was not just fucked up but also stupid and weird and kind of hilarious. — Gillian Flynn

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. — Herbie Hancock

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent. — Nick Hornby

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman

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

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire. — Noel Coward

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. — Itzhak Perlman

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy. — W.N.P. Barbellion

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. — Franz Liszt

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

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine. — Robert Gottlieb

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness. — Andrei Tarkovsky