Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

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.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

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.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

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.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

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.

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.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Let your joy scream across the pain.

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.

Love's language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.