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
Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes about
cheerful brightness purses
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
sunshine air beats
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
american-history periods understood
I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
evenings grew land ma talked thick western
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.