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
men animal feds
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.
long woods way
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
strong giving-up dark
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.
eye men rich
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
suits fixed ifs
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
sadness choices needs
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
perspective matter doe
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
mother memories world
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
weed spring fighting
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.
thieves dishonesty cry
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
oil doe machinery
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
hunger hungry stealing
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
thinking together vote
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.
vices virtue shortcomings
Vices are simply overworked virtues ...