Born Quote by Will Rogers

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had…

— Michala Petri

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

— Herbie Hancock

Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.

— Helen McCrory

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

— Franz Liszt

I was so young when I was born.

— George Harrison

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

— Frank Wedekind

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

— Elliot Perlman

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

— Paulo Coelho

I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.

— John Lewis

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

— Muriel Barbery

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid…

— Joni Mitchell

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became…

— Terry Pratchett