Laura Wilder Quotes
Collection of top 72 famous quotes about Laura Wilder
Laura Wilder Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Laura Wilder quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
There's no great loss without some small gain.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Then Father said: If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I'll give you a thrashing you'll remember.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Never bet your money on another man's game.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat. The
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Home is the nicest word there is.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...
— Eleanor Brown
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
He would butcher it as soon as the weather was cold enough to keep the pork frozen. Once
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nothing anywhere could be better than being at home with the home folks, she was sure.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
It's work, son," Father said. "That's what money is; it's hard work.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
friends will stand by me in trouble. They will
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
When a man undertakes a job, he has to stick to it till he finishes it. If
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Then
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life begins at eighty.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
I understood ... that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Popcorn is American. Nobody but the Indians ever had popcorn, till after the Pilgrim Fathers came to America. On
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Every war is more or less a woman's war.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Well, Caroline, it's pleasant to be with a crowd of people all trying to do the right thing, same as we are.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
God hates a coward."
I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
must be seen and not heard.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder