I was never a prodigy.

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in…

— Twyla Tharp

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably…

— Edward Gibbon

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

— John Green

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

— Orson Welles

The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean…

— Misty Copeland

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

— Nick Hornby

Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves…

— Joseph Addison

When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs…

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This book is not for parents who want to raise a perfect child. You can probably make that kind of kid, but I don't…

— Brett Berk

Some of my friends, they were the best, or prodigies, at the time, their development kind of stopped a few years later. Whereas I…

— Viktor Hovland

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by…

— Anonymous

“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special because we…

— Nathan Hill

Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts…

— Marguerite Yourcenar