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
hard-work thinking wind
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
uplifting heart fearless
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
autumn green-fields air
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
strong giving-up dark
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.
play two summertime
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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.
eye fever blind
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
suits fixed ifs
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
sadness choices needs
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
rain hammers hook
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
years gone said
Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.
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.
passion years long
The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.