Orson Scott Card Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Boyfriend, Children, Dad

• There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Father, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.67, Macmillan

• Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Home, Boys

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.136, Macmillan

• it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Dad, Father

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.27, Macmillan

• Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Father, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

• I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Ignorance, Ignorant

• But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Men, Taught

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

• I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Heart, Life Is

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.222, Macmillan

• My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Feel Better, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.7, Macmillan

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