229 Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

It was farmers that took all that land and made it America...It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

For winter was coming. The days were shorter, and frost crawled up the window panes at night. Soon the snow would come. Then the log house would be almost buried in snowdrifts, and the lake and the stream would freeze.

Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt.

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.

Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.