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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERHome is the nicest word there is.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
-
-
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Let your joy scream across the pain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER






