It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You can't leave [the children] to God when God has left them to us." - Sister Carlotta” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“So the I.F. is spying on Earth." "Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard." "Good to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Shadows that children make on the wall,” said Petra, “and someone turns the light off.” “Or turns a brighter one on,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“are more to a woman than any man can be. We pretend otherwise. We pretend we bear them for him, that we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so stupid or dangerous or painful that people won’t eagerly do it, if by doing it they will make… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Petra looked at him as if he were an annoying child. “You really are dim,” she said. “I know he’s dangerous,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?” “For both… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Someday they will die, their children will die, all children will die. Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The kids are vicious. They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna.” “When did you read Pollyanna?” “It was a book?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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