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
education fit folks
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
almost house laura mary playing slowly stared stopped wagon
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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.
failure beginnings-and-endings
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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.
order absence enjoy
in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...
people used enjoy
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
light mind laura
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
long house cozy
She thought to herself, "This is now." 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.
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.
country hunting years
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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.
jobs hard-work men
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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.