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 WILDERWild 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 WILDERThere is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERVices are simply overworked virtues.
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERAll I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERWhen 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 WILDERNo one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERCourage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLet’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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERFar worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERNever bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER