# Quote — Orson Scott Card, The Ships Of Earth

> Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [The Ships Of Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/maybe-what-we-really

## More from this book

> I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.

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> Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/just-because-you.md)

> Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

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