Explore more quotes by Orson Scott Card

"I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people."

People,

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."

Love, Defeat, Enemy

"In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now."

Time, History, Now, Study

"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."

Creativity, Ideas, First, Writers

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

Music, Writing

"I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more."

Hope,

"It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes."

Being, Causes, Class, Luxury

"The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make."

God, Control, Choice, Will

"I buy way too many books."

Books,

"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."

Civilization, Poison

Exlpore more Family quotes

"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

Family, Kiss, Children

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Family, Success, Achievement, Children, Enjoyment

"I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

Barack Obama, American President

Family, Mistake, Values, Baby, Daughters

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Family, Pleasure, Sorrow

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."

Barack Obama, American President

Family, Faith, Success, Love, African

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Family, Business, Character, Man

"My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable."

Diane Abbott, British Politician

Family, Mother

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

Dean Acheson, American Statesman

Family, Father, Example

"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

John Acton, English Historian

Family, Mother, Being, Constitution, Country

"I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family."

Gary Ackerman, American Politician

Family, Thought, Decision, Congress