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
home comfort little-house-on-the-prairie
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
home prairie little-house-on-the-prairie
Home is the nicest word there is.
stupid spelling little-house-on-the-prairie
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
loss gains prairie
There's no great loss without some small gain.
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.
years gone said
Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.