Quotes About Children
But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.
~ Orson Scott Card
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She loved him. He loved her. In the absence of understanding, that was as good a reason as any for living together and making babies and raising them up and throwing them out of the house and then going through the long slow decline together until one of them died and left the other alone again, understanding as little as ever about what their spouses really wanted, who they really were.
~ Orson Scott Card
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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 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 But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.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
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What the world is seeing is that the savior of the world has a little problem – he kills children.
~ Orson Scott Card
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are more to a woman than any man can be. We pretend otherwise. We pretend we bear them for him, that we raise them for him. But it's not true. We raise them for themselves. We stay with our men for the children's sake.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Said Leah, 'How do children learn if they aren't punished when they do wrong?' 'They are punished,' said Jacob 'Just not alOrways in obvious ways. When you're wicked, then Wisdom departs from you. You become more and more like an animal--like the baboons of the wilderness, or like a jackal. But when you're righteous, Wisdom dwells with you like a dear friend, and whispers always in your ear.
~ Orson Scott Card
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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. Children aren't in armies, they aren't commanders, they don't rule over forty other kids
~ Orson Scott Card
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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 Alai, "and the shadows disappear.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Theresa dismissively. "It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid." "What makes me saddest," said John Paul, "is that Locke is getting credit for caring about Ender more than anybody. So when his identity does come out, it'll look as though he loyally stepped in to protect his brother.
~ Orson Scott Card
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Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.
~ Orson Scott Card
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You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They came as Wordsworth said, trailing clouds of glory. Along with a few clouds of other things not quite so glorious.
~ Orson Scott Card
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But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared
~ Orson Scott Card
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
~ Oscar Wilde
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The years tumbled on. They had kids: one two three four. Beauties. Whippersnappers. A little wild, all of them.
~ Colum McCann
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Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason, Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. You're forgetting the Little Prince, Polly reminded him. Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act, snapped Sir Godfrey.
~ Connie Willis
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If American women increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
~ Coretta Scott King
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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And of course it's true that any number of these books were penned in lieu of burning down the world—which was their author's true desire. But the real question is are we few the last of a lineage? Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name?
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Suttree among others, sad children of the fates whose home is the world, all gathered here a little while to forestall the going there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name? The legacy of the word is a fragile thing for all its power, but I know where you stand, Squire. I know that there are words spoken by men ages dead that will never leave your heart.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Åžerif ba??n? iki yana sallad?. UyuÅŸturucu, dedi. UyuÅŸturucu. Bu boku okul çocuklar?na sat?yorlar. O kadarla kalsa gene iyi. Nas?l yani? Okul çocuklar? bu boku sat?n al?yor.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The rage of children seemed inexplicable other than as a breach of some deep and innate covenant having to do with how the world should be and wasnt. I understood that their raw exposure to the world was the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Loretta told me that she had heard on the radio about some percentage of the children in this country bein raised by their grandparents. I forget what it was. Pretty high, I thought. Parents wouldnt raise em. We talked about that. What we thought was that when the next generation come along and they dont want to raise their children neither then who is goin to do it? Their own parents will be the only grandparents around and they wouldnt even raise them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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