These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll 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 WILDEREvery 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 WILDERVices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERDid you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERHer blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERRemember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROnce you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERSome old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIn order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERMoney hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER