Laura Ingalls Wilder
19 quotes
Biography
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
"Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it."
"Now is now. It can never be a long time ago."
"The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong."
"There's no great loss without some small gain."
"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 you look at other so-called children’s authors, you’ll see they never wrote directly for children. Though Lewis Carroll dedicated his book to Alice, I feel it was an afterthought once the whole was already committed to paper. Beatrix Potter declared, “I write to please myself!” And I think the same can be said of Milne or Tolkien or Laura Ingalls Wilder."
"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."
"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."
"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)"
"We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention."
"Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train."
"Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes."
"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."
"A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing."
"You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money."
"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after 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."
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."