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
truth literature whole-truth
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
money men promise
Money 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.
crow pebbles needs
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
age next wonder
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
family home house
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.
needs attention panthers
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
age eighty
Life begins at eighty.
country animal people
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.
american-history periods understood
I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
passion years long
The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
uplifting heart fearless
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
lonely sleep wind
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
home comfort little-house-on-the-prairie
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
organization attention trouble
The 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.