40 Quotes by Caroline Fraser

I think we receive a great deal what we expect in this world. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

She realized that all her life the teachings of those early days have influenced me and the example set by father and mother has been something I have tried to follow, which failures here and there, with rebellion at times, but always coming back to it as the compass needle to the star, -Laura Ingalls Wilder, 'As A Farm Woman Thinks.' Missouri Ruralist, August 1, 1923; Farm Journalist, p. 290.

Such magic there is in Christmas to draw the absent ones home and if unable to go in the body the thoughts will hover there.

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.

Everything is evened up in the world. The rich have their ice in the summer but the poor get theirs in the winter.

She praised his 'agricultural theology', having long ago taken such advice as gospel: don't go looking for a better place "but MAKE one.

The Wilders, of course, paid no attention to her exuberance, continuing to live a frugal existence among their pigs and hens, entertained by a self-re-newing circle of farm cats and their preternaturally gifted Airedale terrier, Nero, who would sit politely at the dinner table like a member of the family, eating off his own plate.

Houses are real, deep, emotional things.