Orson Scott Card Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Clever, Fate

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.207, Macmillan

• Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

  Orson Scott Card

  Years, Parent, Prison

• Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Children, Mistake

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

• Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Children, Mistake

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

• If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Reading, Kids, Parent

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