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
cousin horse easter
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
suits fixed ifs
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
hunger hungry stealing
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
tables-and-chairs house needs
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
thieves dishonesty cry
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
oil doe machinery
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
vices virtue shortcomings
Vices are simply overworked virtues ...
order absence enjoy
in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...
weed spring fighting
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.
sky white lakes
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
perspective matter doe
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
american-history periods understood
I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
home gun doors
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
education fit folks
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.