Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
-
-
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 -
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER