Prodigies Quotes

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Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of… — Anthony Doerr
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting… — Wendy Wasserstein
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. — Joshua Waitzkin
I was never a prodigy. — Lindsay Davenport
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent… — Josh Gad
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. — Herbie Hancock
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my… — Black Francis
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 anything… — Misty Copeland
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. — Bobby Sherman
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… — Will Rogers
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy. — Robert Moses
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. — Desiderius Erasmus
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once… — John Sununu
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — Orson Welles
If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written. — Eoin Colfer
He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent. — Nick Hornby

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