Enjoy our pinnable and shareable collection of quotes from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s own writings.
“As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good. ”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God…”
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
“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“…and Pa’s fiddle sang merrily to itself.”
“Icicles hung from the eaves of the house….like glass and full of sharp lights.”
“Ma liked everything on her table to be pretty.”
“The grass grew green again and the woods were full of wildflowers.”
“Then all the leaves stopped being green. They were yellow and scarlet and crimson and golden and brown.”
“The pumpkins and the squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic’s corners.”
“…Laura saw the lake. It was as blue as the sky, and it went to the edge of the world.”
“The attic and the cellar were full of good things once more, and Laura and Mary had started to make patchwork quilts. Everything was beginning to be snug and cosy again.”
“The air was still as ice and the twigs were snapping in the cold.”
“The meadows were rosy-purple with the blossoms that the bees loved best.”
“The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.”
“Large feathery flakes made a veil over everything, and if you were alone and held your breath and listened, you could hear the soft tiny sound of their falling.”
“They arched their necks and picked up their little feet daintily.”
“For days Mother and the girls made jellies and jams and preserves, and for every meal there was huckleberry pie or blueberry pudding.”
“Good weather never lasts forever on this earth.”
“All around them there was nothing but grassy prairie spreading to the edge of the sky.”
“One morning the whole world was delicately silvered. Every blade of grass was silvery and the path had a thin sheen…. When the sun came up, the whole prairie sparkled. Millions of tiny, tiny sparks of color blazed on the grasses.”
“Often a butterfly stopped to rest there. Then Laura watched the velvety wings…”
“They rolled and laughed in the crackling straw. Then they climbed the stack, and slid down it again.”
“In the mornings they ran through the dewy chill grass that wet their feet and dabbled the hems of their dresses.”
“Rabbits stood up with paws dangling, long ears twitching, and their round eyes staring at Mary and Laura.”
“…it isn’t everybody that gets a chance to learn to read and write and cipher.”
“… and Laura let her sunbonnet slip down her back so that she could feel the wind on her face and see the whole great prairie.”
“Down the slope of the little hill…patches of wild crocus spread yellow and blue in the young grass….”
“Tell them we wish they could spend Christmas with us this year like they did in the Big Woods,” said Mary.
“That was such a happy supper that Laura never wanted it to end.”
“Ma said nothing, but a little flush came up her cheeks and her eyes kept on smiling while they ate that delicious pie.”
“The sky was coldly blue and the whole world was white.”
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