Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilderwas an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novelsbased on her childhood in a settler family...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth7 February 1867
CityPepin, WI
CountryUnited States of America
kindness long-ago giving
As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
happiness sympathy laughter
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
stupid spelling little-house-on-the-prairie
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
sunshine air beats
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
mind battle life-is
This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
home prairie little-house-on-the-prairie
Home is the nicest word there is.
naughty easier sooner-or-later
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
coal ems railroads
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
organization attention trouble
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
girl light grease
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
sleep sunshine doctors
Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say.” Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.
uplifting courage heart
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
lonely sleep wind
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
truth literature whole-truth
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.