229 Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

God is America’s king.

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

This country goes three thousand miles west, now. It goes ’way out beyond Kansas, and beyond the Great American Desert, over mountains bigger than these mountains, and down to the Pacific Ocean. It’s the biggest country in the world, and it was farmers who took all that country and made it America, son. Don’t you ever forget that.

These little creatures looked soft as velvet. They had bright round eyes and crinkling noses and wee paws. They popped out of holes in the ground, and stood up to look at Mary and Laura. Their hind legs folded under their haunches, their little paws folded tight to their chests, and they looked exactly like bits of dead wood sticking out of the ground. Only their bright eyes glittered. Mary.

Success gets to be a habit, like anything else a fellow keeps on doing.

Mary and Laura clung tight to their rag dolls and did not say anything. The cousins stood around and looked at them. Grandma and all the aunts hugged and kissed them and hugged and kissed them again, saying good-by.

What is it about water that affects a person? I never see a great river or lake but I think how I would like to see a world made and watch it through all its changes.

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.

It’s work, son,” Father said. “That’s what money is; it’s hard work.