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
jobs hard-work men
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
men sweat bread
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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.
eye men rich
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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.
men games another-man
Never bet your money on another man's game.
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)