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
lying heart sweetness-of-life
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
uplifting heart fearless
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
uplifting courage heart
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
change heart land
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
grateful heart home
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
almost house laura mary playing slowly stared stopped wagon
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
evenings grew land ma talked thick western
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
failure beginnings-and-endings
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
home gun doors
When 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.
order absence enjoy
in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...
education fit folks
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
people used enjoy
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
light mind laura
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
long house cozy
She thought to herself, "This is now." 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.