Children Quotes by Orson Scott Card

“You can't leave [the children] to God when God has left them to us." - Sister Carlotta”

— Orson Scott Card

“Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.”

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The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.

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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

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It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

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Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and…

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For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by…

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“The kids are vicious. They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna.” “When did you read Pollyanna?” “It was a book?”

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I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that…

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Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat…

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“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.”

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Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come…

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“Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to…

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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our…

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“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your…

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“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about…

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That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as…

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“It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly…

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The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And…

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“You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play…

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“So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others,…

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There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even…

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“Our understanding of doctrine is not perfect, and no matter what the popes have said, I don't believe for a moment that…

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She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little…

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“Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?” “For both…

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I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to…

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“Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be…

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“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that…

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“I saw what Andrew did in our family. I saw that he came in and listened and watched and understood who we…

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“We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each…

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She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I…

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“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…

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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're…

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“He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a…

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“Shadows that children make on the wall,” said Petra, “and someone turns the light off.” “Or turns a brighter one on,” said…

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Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature…

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“I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance…

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“So the I.F. is spying on Earth." "Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard." "Good to…

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